1. Parties and Civil Society in Latin America: The Dominance of Contingent and Frayed Linkages.
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Singer, Matthew
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CIVIL society , *PEASANTS , *POLITICAL participation , *PUBLIC opinion , *SELF-fulfilling prophecy , *POLITICAL elites , *POLITICAL attitudes - Abstract
Party vibrancy can help parties reproduce themselves, but many long-lasting parties have exhausted former levels of vibrancy, and many new parties emerge and never form the intense connections that vibrancy entails. Yet while entrepreneurs forming parties under democracy may have the option to sidetrack developing party structures, new parties can and do build extensive grassroots networks. I suspect that many parties that Luna et al. code as fulfilling the core tasks of political parties would generate sufficient attachment from activists that Rosenblatt would code them as being vibrant, while most diminished subtype parties would not. Party History and Organization Ackerman focuses on the opportunities parties have to build connections with the public, and Van Dyck focuses on the incentives that parties have to do so. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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