Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe

Economic and socio-cultural dimensions

Bibliographic Data

ID7950331
AuthorsCecilia Martínez‐gallardo (0000-0002-3700-1037, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Nicolás De La Cerda (0000-0003-2474-9756, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jonathan Hartlyn (0000-0002-6882-1265, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Liesbet Hooghe (0000-0002-6644-8882, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy), Gary Marks (0000-0003-1331-0975, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy), Ryan Bakker (0000-0002-7695-9467, University of Essex)
Year2023
Volume29
Issue4
Pages780-792
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13540688221090604
OpenAlexW4281763150
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited34

The degree to which party systems are ideologically and programmatically structured is central to democracy. This article analyzes differences in the extent and nature of programmatic structuration in Latin America and Europe, using a new original data source, the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), in combination with the long-standing CHES-Europe. First, we demonstrate the reliability of CHES-LA in relation to CHES-Europe, and substantiate its validity by comparing it to other expert, elite and party manifesto surveys in Latin America. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we then show that while party system structuration in Latin America is somewhat lower than in Europe, it is also of a decisively different nature. In Latin America economic and socio-cultural policy positions are largely captured in a single overlapping dimension; in Europe, by contrast, competition occurs overwhelmingly along two dimensions, each with distinct clusters of policy positions

Dimension (graph theory · Elite · Ideology · Latin Americans · Manifesto · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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