Book chapter2021
Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952–2019
Chapter 15 in Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020, edited by Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty. Harvard University Press, 2021.DOI: 10.4159/9780674269910-016
Abstract
This study combines political attitudes surveys to analyze the transformation of the structure of political cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru over the last decades. We document that Latin American countries are characterized by personalist leadership (e.g., Fujimori in Peru, Uribe in Colombia) and important historical cleavages (e.g., anti vs. pro-PLN in Costa Rica) that blur class-based voting patterns and have led in some cases to the emergence of competing for pro-poor and ethnic-based competing coalitions (e.g., PRN-PLN in Costa Rica, Fujimori-Humala in Peru) over the last decades. The party systems of Costa Rica, Colombia, and Peru have thus generated volatile political and socio-economic cleavages, while the more institutionalized party systems of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have been less volatile.
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Barrera, O., Leiva, A., Martínez-Toledano, C., & Zúñiga-Cordero, Á. (2021). Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952–2019. In A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano & T. Piketty (Eds.), Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674269910-016
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title = {{Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952–2019}},
booktitle = {{Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020}},
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