Pathways to Power

Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvPeter M. Siavelis,Scott Morgenstern,Peter M. (Wake Forest University) Siavelis

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Analyses of formal governmental institutions and electoral laws have considerably advanced our understanding of how politics works in Latin America. However, these analyses largely overlook the process of candidate recruitment and selection, an issue intricately tied to political outcomes and the functioning of democracy. In this volume, a team of experts uses a common analytic framework developed by the editors to analyze the recruitment and selection of executive and legislative candidates in six major countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay. It does so from two perspectives. First, as a dependent variable, the volume explores the party and legal factors that drive the recruitment and selection process, thus producing particular types of candidates. It then considers candidate type as an independent variable, analyzing the impact of candidate type on campaigns, political parties, and the behavior of legislators and presidents once elected. The result is the first fully comparative inquiry into a central, but largely neglected, determinant of politics in Latin America.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 35 mm
Vikt676 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor496
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271033761

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ContentsPart ITheoretical Framework1. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis Peter M. Siavelis and Scott MorgensternPart II Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection for the Legislative Branch2. Legislative Candidates in ArgentinaMark P.Jones3.Political Ambition, Candidate Recruitment, and Legislative Politics in BrazilDavid Samuels4.Legislative Candidate Selection in ChilePatricio Navia5. Mejor Solo Que Mal Acompañado: Political Entrepreneurs and List Proliferation in ColombiaErika Moreno and Maria Escobar-Lemmon 6. Legislative Recruitment in MexicoJoy Langston7.Why Factions? Candidate Selection and Legislative Politics in UruguayJuan Andres MoraesPart IIIPolitical Recruitment and Candidate Selection for the Executive Branch8. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Argentina: Presidents and Governors, 1983 to 2006Miguel De Luca 9.Political Recruitment in an Executive-Centric System: Presidents, Ministers, and Governors in Brazil Timothy J. Power and Marilia G. Mochel 10. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Chile, 1990–2006: The Executive Branch David Altman11.Precandidates, Candidates, and Presidents: Paths to the Colombian PresidencySteven L. Taylor, Felipe Botero, and Brian F. Crisp12.Political Recruitment, Governance, and Leadership: How Democracy Has Made a Difference in Mexico Roderic Ai Camp13.Presidential Candidate Selection in Uruguay, 1942 to 2004Daniel Buquet and Daniel ChasquettiPart III Gender and Political Recruitment 14. How Do Candidate Recruitment and Selection Processes Affect Representation of Women?Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor RobinsonPart IVSummary and Conclusions15. Pathways to Power and Democracy in Latin America Scott Morgenstern and Peter M. Siavelis References IndexAbout the Contributors

“This book sets the new scholarly standard for the analysis of the recruitment and selection of candidates for Congress and President in the major Latin American countries. The editors formulate a general framework to study the role of political parties in candidate selection. The authors apply it to the country studies for the legislature and the executive. The book is theoretically coherent, making it possible for the empirical case studies to generate genuinely comparable results. The result is a gem of rigorous scholarship that sheds light on understudied key questions for constitutional democratic politics. Its scholarship is excellent.”—Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University