Segmented Party-Voter Linkages in Latin America

The Case of the UDI

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3328869
AutoresJuan Pablo Luna (0000-0001-7597-203X, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas325-356
Fecha de publicación2010-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x10000465
OpenAlexW2074390357
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas44
Referencias citadas12

By analysing the socially segmented party-voter linkages deployed by the Unión Demócrata Independiente (Independent Democratic Union, UDI), a Chilean conservative party, this article demonstrates the usefulness of combining Kitschelt's party-voter linkage framework with Gibson's conceptual approach to conservative party electoral coalition-making. In Latin America, parties take advantage of social fragmentation and the availability of non-state campaign financing to combine multiple linkage types and thus attract socially diverse constituencies. Although it is an opposition party, UDI's historical trajectory and organisation have enabled it to receive private funds from its traditional and party-identified core constituency (business and conservative sectors), whose programmatic preferences and interests it represents, and then use these resources in a 'charismatic' mobilisation approach and particularistic exchanges with a non-core constituency (low-income, non-traditional voters of the radical right), in a segmented, but nationally integrated, electoral strategy

Core (optical fiber) · Democracy · Economics · Latin Americans · Linkage (software) · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social democracy · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration