Description: Success of the Left in Latin America : Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior, Hardcover by Queirolo, Rosario, ISBN 0268206961, ISBN-13 9780268206963, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Why, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, have so many Latin American countries elected governments identifying themselves with the ideological Left? In The Success of the Left in Latin America: Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior, Rosario Queirolo argues that the “pink tide” that swept across Latin America beginning in the late 1990s—with the election of a growing number of leftist political candidates to public office—was caused by the intent of voters to punish political parties unable to improve the economic well-being of their electorates. She argues that Latin Americans vote based on performance, ousting those whom they perceive as responsible for economic downturns, and ushering into power those in the “untainted opposition,” which has been the Left in most Latin American countries. Queirolo argues that the effects of neoliberal economic reforms did not produce more votes for political parties on the Left. Rather, the key variable is unemployment. Left-leaning parties in Latin America increase their electoral chances when unemployment is high. In addition to explaining recent electoral successes of leftist parties, The Success of the Left in Latin America also undermines a dominant scholarly view of Latin Americans as random and unpredictable voters by showing how the electorate at the polls holds politicians accountable.
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Book Title: Success of the Left in Latin America : Untainted Parties, Market
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Success of the Left in Latin America : Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Subject: Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Political Ideologies / Democracy, Latin America / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2022
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Rosario Queirolo
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
