Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective Kindle Edition

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Why did some Latin American labor-based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a detailed study of the Argentine Peronism, as well as a broader comparative analysis, this book develops an organizational approach to party change. Levitsky's study 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 Peronism, 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-reached coalitional and programmatic changes that enabled Peronism to survive, and even thrive, in the neoliberal era.

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Explains why some contemporary Latin American labor-based parties adapted successfully to the challenges of neoliberalism. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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"The result of [Levitsky's] work is a book that not only adds to our understanding of one of Latin America's most notorious parties, but provides useful theoretical insights for the study of parties and politics across all regions. His work sets high standards of research, conceptualizing, and theorizing, and it gives impetus and direction to the study of political parties in Latin America." Latin American Politics and Society

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DM2FYQM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (January 20, 2003)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2003
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5982 KB
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Steven Levitsky is a Professor of Government at Harvard University. Levitsky’s research focuses on Latin America and the developing world. He is the author of Competitive Authoritarianism and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. Levitsky has written for Vox and The New York Times, among other publications.

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A wonderfully well written book with plenty of valuable insights. I am a politics and Latin American studies major at Brandeis University in my senior year. This book was assigned for a class that focused on Argentina and Brazil, but I did not notice its value until this year when I took a social movements class that covered the entirety of Latin America. This book is essential towards understanding the old Populism, social movements and authoritarian regimes of the mid 1900's - early 1980's, and finally the implementation of neoliberalist policies with a focus on Menem and his values versus those of the Partido Justalista (PJ). The social movements class did not focus on Argentina (except for Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo), but I ended up using this book for all three papers (and it wasn't even required reading for the class). Out of all the books I've read on Latin America, I've made it a point to hold on to at least two specific books. This book is one of those books. The other is "Theorizing Social Movements" by Joe Foweraker.

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