How Party Activism Survives : Uruguay's Frente Amplio.
Explores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Online dostop: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2274682 |
Kazalo:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Theory; Historical Causation; Constant Causation; Methods; Case Selection: Why the Frente Amplio?; Analytical Tools, Data Gathering and Sources; Overview; 2 Context Matters: The Political and Socioeconomic Setting; Introduction; Rise and Decay of the Polyarchy; The Dual Transition in Uruguay; The Political Economy of the First Three FA Governments; Conclusions; 3 Voluntary Activism in the FA; Introduction
- The Participation Structure: In-Depth Description of the Deviant CaseBase Committees and Grassroots Activists; From the Bottom to the Top: the Vertical Structure of the Party; The Coalition Structure and Its Relationship with the Grassroots; Conclusions; 4 Origins and Reproduction of the Mass-Organic Structure; Introduction; The Origin of the FA as a Mass-Organic Leftist Party; The Determinants of the Construction of the Participatory Structure; The Reproduction of the Mass-Organic Nature; Conclusions; 5 Party Structure, Efficacy, and Activism; Introduction
- Activists Are Different from AdherentsVoice Reduction Affects Activists; Organizers Transform Adherents into Activists; Conclusions; 6 The Limits to Strategic Adaptation; Introduction; Empirical Analysis of Party Decisions; The Ideological Transformation of the FA; Examples of Limits to Strategic Adaptation; An FTA with the USA; The Plebiscite on the Law Concerning the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State against Crimes during the Dictatorship; The TISA Negotiations; Conclusions; 7 The FA in Comparative Perspective; Introduction; The Brazilian PT: A Negative Case in Latin America
- The fa as a Strange Electoral AllianceConclusions; 8 Theoretical Conclusions and Political Implications; Introduction; Review of Empirical Findings; The Challenges Ahead; A Decadent Organization of the Past or Democracy in the Twenty-First Century?; Appendix
- Interviewees; References; Index