In their hasty response to the recent wave of populist victories, many analysts have ignored
previous scholarship on populism. In contrast, contributors to this special issue draw from …

The electoral consequences of the Great Recession are analysed in this article by
combining insights from economic voting theories and the literature on party system change …

Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil;
what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This …

Although military rule disappeared in Latin America after 1990, other forms of
authoritarianism persisted. Competitive authoritarianism, in which democratic institutions …

Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional
wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. Forbearance as Redistribution …

Abstract Although scholars of West European politics have long debated whether the
region's highly institutionalised party systems were becoming de‐aligned and electorally …

The 2015 general election marked the end of the two-party system that had existed in Spain
since the restoration of democracy. Two new parties,'Podemos' and 'Ciudadanos', entered …

This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems
and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of …

Systems of social protection can provide crucial assistance to the poorest and most
vulnerable groups in society, but not all systems are created equally. In Latin America, social …

Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …