Segmented Representation

Juan Pablo Luna Farina is interested in the analysis of political parties and democratic representation, the political effects of inequality, and the nature of state institutions. In 2010 he co-authored the book Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge University Press). His dissertation research was awarded the 2008 Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award by the Comparative Democratization Section of APSA. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Política y Gobierno, Revista de Ciencia Política, Latin American Politics and Society, International Political Science Review, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Latin American Studies, the Journal of Democracy, Perfiles Latinoamericanos, and Democratization. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University (2008), Brown University (2011), and Harvard University (2013). He is Associate Professor, Instituto de Ciencia Política, PUC-Chile.

• Introduction ; 1. Segmented Electoral Appeals: A Descriptive Framework ; 2. Patterns of Party-Voter Linkages in Chile and Uruguay: A Stylized Description of the Pre-1973 and Post-Transitional Periods ; 3. Socioeconomic Segmentation of Party-Voter Linkages in Post-transitional Chile and Uruguay ; 4. Territorial Segmentation of Party-Voter Linkages in Post-transitional Chile and Uruguay ; 5. Strategic Harmonization of Segmented Linkages: The UDI and Frente Amplio in Comparative Perspective ; 6. Causal Induction: Explaining Linkage Structures in Chile and Uruguay ; 7. Plausibility Tests: Out-of-Sample Cases ; 8. Conclusion ; Bibliography

This is a path-breaking study of democratic representation in highly unequal societies. Juan Pablo Luna convincingly demonstrates that segmented societies create both incentives and opportunities for political parties'-on both the left and the right-to use different types of electoral appeals to attract distinct groups of voters. Drawing from survey data and field research in Chile and Uruguay, Luna shows how parties craft electoral strategies that combine programmatic, clientelistic, and personalistic linkages to voters, allowing them to generate support among heterogeneous but socially segmented constituencies. The result is a masterful analysis of how inequality structures democratic representation-and, ultimately, how democracy can reproduce social inequality.