Overview
- Explores data gathered by 9,000 personal interviews with Latin American parliamentary representatives conducted since 1994 with special attention to gender
- Examines parliamentarian elites’ attitudes towards issues such as political ambition, political trust, satisfaction with democracy, clientelism and the quality of democracy
- Analyzes how Latin American parliamentarian elites see the influence of China and the United States in their countries’ national politics
- Presents in-depth studies of seven national cases which are representative of regional heterogeneity: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay
Part of the book series: Latin American Societies (LAS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Democracy and Institutions
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Case Studies
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mercedes García Montero is Professor in the area of Political Science and member of the Instituto de Iberoamérica at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and co-director of the Political Elitesin Latin America Project (PELA) at the same institution. She has also been Director of the Instituto de Iberoamérica at the University of Salamanca (2015-2019). She holds a PhD in Political Science and Administration, Master in Latin American Studies and Degree in Sociology from the University of Salamanca. Specialist in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis, by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). She is a researcher at the Instituto de Iberoamérica of the University of Salamanca and has published various works on the Legislative Power in Latin America, including the books “Presidentes y Parlamentos ¿quién controla la actividad legislativa en América Latina?” (2010) and "Funciones, procedimientos y escenarios: un análisis del poder legislativo en América Latina" (2005), written with Manuel Alcántara and Francisco Sánchez López. His lines of research include political institutions, executive-legislative relations, political elites and parliaments in Latin America.
Cristina Rivas Pérez is Assistant Professor in the area of Political Science at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and a researcher at the Instituto de Iberoamérica. She is manager of the Political Elites in Latin America Project (PELA) at the same institution. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Administration, a PhD in Multivariate Statistics, a Master in Latin American Studies, and a Degree in Sociology, all from the University of Salamanca, and a Degree in Data Analysis from the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). Her lines of research are linked to the study of political elites, democracy, public opinion and research methodology in the social sciences. She has participated in research projects related to parliamentary elites and democratization processes in Latin America and the functioning of political institutions in the region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics and Political Elites in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Trends
Editors: Manuel Alcántara, Mercedes García Montero, Cristina Rivas Pérez
Series Title: Latin American Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51584-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51583-6Published: 23 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51586-7Published: 24 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51584-3Published: 22 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-5538
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5546
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 353
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Comparative Politics