Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and
politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic
regimes, from the organization of political machines built around
clientelistic networks to the establishment of sophisticated
programmatic parties. Latin American Party Systems provides a novel
theoretical argument to account for differences in the degree to
which political party systems in the region were programmatically
structured at the end of the twentieth century. Based on a diverse
array of indicators and surveys of party legislators and public
opinion, the book argues that learning and adaptation through
fundamental policy innovations are the main mechanisms by which
politicians build programmatic parties. Marshalling extensive
evidence, the book s analysis shows the limits of alternative
explanations and substantiates a sanguine view of programmatic
competition, nevertheless recognizing that this form of party
system organization is far from ubiquitous and enduring in Latin
America.
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