Outsider and Anti-Party Politicians in Power

New Conceptual Strategies and Empirical Evidence from Peru

Bibliographic Data

ID6316457
AuthorsCharles D Kenney (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume4
Issue1
Pages57-75
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354068898004001003
OpenAlexW2005376861
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited17

This article argues for the need to distinguish two dimensions constituting politicians' relationships to party systems: politicians are classified as either outsiders or insiders, depending on their party system origins, and as either anti-party or party-tolerant, depending on their discourse vis-a-vis the party system. Using data gathered from the recent Parliamentary Elites of Latin America survey in Peru, I find that party system origins and discourse vary significantly with party membership and with legislators' views on three sets of important political issues: (1) democracy, elections and parties, (2) human rights and the role of the armed forces, and (3) the economy, labor and the role of the state. In addition, contrary to widely shared assumptions, both anti-party and party-tolerant outsiders in Peru show a greater affinity for the ideological center than for the right, while both groups showed a marked disaffinity for the political left

Communism · Democracy · Ideology · Latin Americans · Party platform · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Primary election · Realigning election · Socialism · Sociology · Split-ticket voting · State (computer science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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