Why would a national political party that has been competitive for decades collapse
overnight? In recent years, parties across Latin America went from being major contenders …

Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct
Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative …

Plurality-led Congresses are among the most pervasive and least studied phenomena in
presidential systems around the world. Often conflated with divided government, where an …

Em 2014, a direita brasileira voltou a crescer no Parlamento, revertendo o movimento de
queda constante do número de representantes na Câmara dos Deputados que se …

A pesar de su alto grado de institucionalización y de la relativa estabilidad de la
competencia electoral, el sistema de partidos uruguayo ha sufrido una significativa …

Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this
function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives …

Izquierda y derecha (o liberales y conservadores) son conceptos usados ampliamente para
estudiar partidos y otros objetos políticos, pero tienen al menos dos problemas. Primero, no …

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This article argues that social patterns of inequality and structures of partisan competition
play central roles in shaping support for redistribution, offering three important insights …

Earlier research focused extensively on political parties as promoters and users of
clientelism. However, previous studies have also revealed that parties are not monolithic …