Why do some parties formed by social movements develop top-down structures while others
stay more open and responsive to their social bases? The first rigorous comparative study of …

The political trajectory of Latin America in the last decade has been remarkable. The left,
which had been given up for dead across the region, swept into power in numerous …

The declines in social and economic inequality registered in many Latin American countries
since the late 1990s (see Table 2.1) coincided with a basic change in the region's political …

This paper studies the transformation of economic and social policy in Turkey during the
2000s. The policy mix that has emerged can be usefully conceptualized as social …

Argentina and Uruguay are the only democracies in Latin America (among few in the world)
that have developed sustained, state-oriented national and sectoral wage bargaining …

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the
emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America …

During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule
for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political …

Na virada para o Século XXI, a esquerda ascendeu ao poder em diversos países latino-
americanos, o que ficou conhecido como giro à esquerda. Eles compartilharam o …

In 2012 and 2013, Uruguay decriminalised abortion, legalised equal marriage and
decriminalised the usage and self-cultivation of marijuana. Uruguayan social movements …

Chile's massive 2019 protests indicate a pronounced discrepancy between the country's
alleged establishment of social democracy and the public's perception of pervasive inequity …