Resumen
This research note presents a classification of Latin American parties and party systems, according to mainstream ideological currents and country-specific competitive patterns. This classification is based on a preliminary analysis of the results of an expert survey on Latin American party systems that was carried out from 2007 to 2009. We factor-analyze parties' positions on a wide set of issues and estimate three (latent) ideological dimensions: statism, conservatism (moral, religious, nationalist), and attitudes towards democracy. On the basis of these three ideological dimensions we perform a cluster analysis and classify the political parties of the region in ten "ideological families".
Título traducido de la contribución | Parties and party systems in Latin America: Perspectives from an expert survey 2009 |
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Idioma original | Español |
Páginas (desde-hasta) | 775-798 |
Número de páginas | 24 |
Publicación | Revista de Ciencia Politica |
Volumen | 29 |
N.º | 3 |
Estado | Publicada - 2009 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |