Analyses of formal governmental institutions and electoral laws
have considerably advanced our understanding of how politics works
in Latin America. However, these analyses largely overlook the
process of candidate recruitment and selection, an issue
intricately tied to political outcomes and the functioning of
democracy.
In this volume, a team of experts uses a common analytic
framework developed by the editors to analyze the recruitment and
selection of executive and legislative candidates in six major
countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay.
It does so from two perspectives. First, as a dependent variable,
the volume explores the party and legal factors that drive the
recruitment and selection process, thus producing particular types
of candidates. It then considers candidate type as an independent
variable, analyzing the impact of candidate type on campaigns,
political parties, and the behavior of legislators and presidents
once elected. The result is the first fully comparative inquiry
into a central, but largely neglected, determinant of politics in
Latin America.
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