Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of
knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to …

This introduction assesses the effects of Latin America's pink tide on gender equality in the
region. We find that left governments and left competition provide an opportunity for …

Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties
emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously …

Political parties with activists are in decline due to various external shocks. Societal
changes, like the emergence of new technologies of communication have diminished the …

Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly
territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments …

How do protest movements affect electoral politics in electoral authoritarianism? Related
research has usually focused on the immediate effects of protests on regime change, while …

In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed
unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in gender …

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies,
focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens. Political regimes in …

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 …

The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America argues that while
populist leaders typically claim to speak'in the name of the people', they rarely allow the …