Party Systems in Latin America

Scott Mainwaring is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include democratic institutions and democratization; authoritarian and democratic regimes; and political parties and party systems. His book with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall (Cambridge, 2013) won prizes for the best book awarded by the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association and the Political Institutions section of the Latin American Studies Association. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

• Part I. Introduction: Introduction Scott Mainwaring; 1. Party system institutionalization, decay, and collapse Scott Mainwaring, Fernando Bizzarro Neto and Ana Petrova; 2. Party system institutionalization in contemporary Latin America Scott Mainwaring; 3. Party system institutionalization, predictability, and democracy Scott Mainwaring; 4. Party system institutionalization in Latin America: cross-national correlates Scott Mainwaring and Fernando Bizzarro Neto; Part II. Country Cases: 5. Resilience and change: the party system in redemocratized Chile J. Samuel Valenzuela, Nicolás Somma and Timothy Scully; 6. The uneven institutionalization of a party system: Brazil Scott Mainwaring, Timothy Power and Fernando Bizzarro Neto; 7. Authoritarian legacies and party system stability in Mexico Kenneth Greene and Mariano Sánchez Talanquer; 8. Deinstitutionalization without collapse: Colombia's party system Juan Albarracín, Laura Gamboa and Scott Mainwaring; 9. Argentina's declining party system: fragmentation, denationalization, factionalization, personalization and increasing fluidity in the new century Carlos Gervasoni; 10. Deterioration and polarization of party politics in Venezuela Jana Morgan; 11. Peru: the institutionalization of politics without parties Steven Levitsky; Part III. Comparative Analyses: 12. Party brands, partisan erosion, and party breakdown Noam Lupu; 13. Roots in society: attachment between citizens and party systems in Latin America Jason Seawright; 14. The macroeconomic consequences of party system institutionalization Gustavo Flores-Macías; 15. From the outside looking in: Latin American parties in comparative perspective Allen Hicken and Rachel Beatty Riedl.

'Party Systems in Latin America will become an essential reading for students of politics in Latin America. It will consolidate as the state of the art understanding on how political parties shape democracy in the region for the decades to come … This book will also establish itself as a valuable reference for scholars of comparative party systems.' Kenneth Bunker, Democratization