Transforming labor-based parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in comparative perspective

"Drawing on a detailed study of Argentine Peronism, as well as a broader comparative analysis, this book develops an organizational approach to party change. Levitsky's book breaks new ground in its focus on informal and weakly institutionalized party structures. It argues that loosely str...

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1. Verfasser: Levitsky, Steven (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 2003
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Zusammenfassung:"Drawing on a detailed study of Argentine Peronism, as well as a broader comparative analysis, this book develops an organizational approach to party change. Levitsky's book breaks new ground in its focus on informal and weakly institutionalized party structures. It argues that loosely structured party organizations, such as those found in many populist labor-based parties, are often better equipped to adapt to rapid environmental change than are more bureaucratic labor-based parties. The argument is illustrated in the case of the Peronist party, a mass labor-based party with a highly fluid internal structure. The book shows how this weakly routinized structure allowed party reformers to undertake a set of far-reaching coalitional and programmatic changes that enabled Peronism to survive, and even thrive, in the neoliberal era."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 290 p. 24 cm
ISBN:0521816777
0521016975