Información General

• Autores: Manuel Alcántara Sáez (coord.), Mercedes García Montero (coord.), Cristina Rivas (coord.)
• Editores: Springer Suiza
• Año de publicación: 2020
• Colecciones: Latin American Societies
• País: Suiza
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9783030515836
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Reseñas

• Ha sido reseñado en:

  • "Politics and political elites in Latin America, challenges and trends"

    Mariana Sendra (res.)

    REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, ISSN 0210-5233, Nº 175, 2021, págs. 166-169

  • Manuel Alcántara, Mercedes García Montero, and Cristina Rivas Pérez (editors). "Politics and Political Elites in Latin America: Challenges and Trends": Cham: Springer, 2020. 353 pages. ISBN 978-3-030-51583-6

    Emily B. Carty (res.)

    Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública, ISSN-e 2660-700X, ISSN 1852-9003, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 181-184

  • Alcántara, M., García, M. y Rivas, C. "Politics and Political Elites in Latin America. Challenges and Trends": Cham: Springer. 2020, pp. 353

    Luis Antonio González Tule (res.)

    Ciencia Política, ISSN-e 1909-230X, Vol. 16, Nº. 31, 2021, págs. 301-304

Resumen

• This book presents in-depth analyses of the data gathered for 26 years by the Political Elites of Latin America project (PELA), the most comprehensive database about the topic in the world. Since 1994, PELA has conducted around 9,000 personal interviews with representative samples of the Legislative Powers of 18 Latin American countries, generating a unique resource for the study of political elites in a comparative perspective. Now, this contributed volume brings together studies that dig into the data gathered by PELA to discuss important topics related to the challenges faced by representative democracy in Latin America.

  After an introductory chapter that presents the potential of the PELA database, the book is structured in two parts. The first addresses in eight chapters important aspects of representative democracy such as political ambition, political trust, satisfaction with democracy, clientelism and the quality of democracy. It then discusses three relevant issues in Latin American political dynamics such as executive-legislative relations, women's participation as representatives, and the meaning of China and the United States in national politics.

  The second part addresses in five chapters studies of seven national cases that are representative of regional heterogeneity. These chapters aim to examine parliamentarian elites’ attitudes in different political systems with regard to a variety of relevant issues such as institutional trust, satisfaction with democracy, Executive-Legislative relations, clientelism, and gender questions. Furthermore, these chapters intend to evince the evolution of such attitudes in the course of the last two decades.

  Politics and Political Elites in Latin America: Challenges and Trends will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics in general and, more particularly, to those interested in the challenges faced by representative democracy not only in Latin America, but in many parts of the world.

  Studying Political Elites in Latin America will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics in general and, more particularly, to those interested in the challenges faced by representative democracy not only in Latin America, but in many parts of the world

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Listado de artículos

• • PELA-USAL: A Methodological Tool for the Study of Elites

    Mélany Barragán Manjón, Cristina Rivas, José Manuel Rivas Otero

    págs. 3-26

    

  • Political Ambition in Latin America

    Theresa Kernecker

    págs. 27-49

    

  • Political Trust of Parliamentary Elites in Latin America

    Cristina Rivas, Manuel Alcántara Sáez

    págs. 51-76

    

  • Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America: Perspectives from Political Elites and Citizens

    María del Mar Martínez Rosón, Araceli Mateos Díaz

    págs. 77-96

    

  • Shopping for Votes in Latin America: When Do Legislators Engage in Vote-Buying Practices?

    Margarita Corral González, María del Mar Martínez Rosón

    págs. 97-127

    

  • Political Elites and Democratic Fatigue in Latin America

    Asbel Bohigues García, Manuel Alcántara Sáez

    págs. 129-149

    

  • Executive-Legislative Relations: When Do Legislators Trust the President?

    Ignacio Arana Araya, Carolina Guerrero Valencia

    págs. 151-171

    

  • Political Paths and Gender in Latin America: An Analysis of the Trajectories of Legislative Elites

    Mercedes García Montero, Cecilia Graciela Rodríguez

    págs. 173-200

    

  • Covariance of Latin American Elite Attitudes Towards the USA and China

    Asbel Bohigues García, Scott Morgenstern

    págs. 201-218

    

  • What Can Ideology Tell Us?: An Analysis of Deputies and Parties in the Brazilian, Chilean, and Uruguayan Legislatures

    Carlos Ranulfo Melo, Manoel Leonardo Santos, Rafael Câmara

    págs. 221-246

    

  • Democracy and Political Institutions in Mexico from the Perspective of Parliamentary Elites

    Cristian Márquez Romo, Patricia Marenghi

    págs. 247-276

    

  • Parliamentary Opposition: An Explanatory Analysis of Ideological and Evaluative Elements in the Congress of Colombia (2006–2022)

    Adriana Marcela Ramírez Baracaldo, José Manuel Rivas Otero

    págs. 277-294

    

  • Parliamentary Elites in Uruguay

    Daniel Chasquetti, Lucía Selios

    págs. 295-325

    

  • Two Cases from Central America: Attitudes of Political Elites in Panama and Guatemala

    Mélany Barragán Manjón

    págs. 327-344