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Success of the Left in Latin America - Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior (Paperback, New)
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Success of the Left in Latin America - Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior (Paperback, New)
Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
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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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