Overview

The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In this region, disaffection with democracy, political parties, and legislatures has spread to an alarming degree. Many presidents have been forced from office, and many traditional parties have fallen by the wayside. These five countries have the potential to be negative examples in a region that has historically had strong demonstration and diffusion effects in terms of regime changes. The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes addresses an important question for Latin America as well as other parts of the world: Why does representation sometimes fail to work?

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Author:   Scott Mainwaring ,  Ana María Bejarano ,  Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9780804752787

ISBN 10:   0804752788
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii List of Contributors iii @toc2:1. The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes: An Overview 1 @tocca:Scott Mainwaring, Ana Maria Bejarano, and Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez @toc1:Part I: Party Systems, Political Outsiders, and the Crisis of Democratic Representation @toc2:2. From Crisis to Collapse of the Party Systems and Dilemmas of Democratic Representation: Peru and Venezuela 000 @tocca:Martin Tanaka @toc2:3. Giants with Feet of Clay: Political Parties in Colombia 000 @tocca:Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez @toc2:4. Ecuador: The Provincialization of Representation @tocca:Simon Pachano 000 @toc2:5. Outsiders and Neopopulism: The Road to Plebiscitary Democracy 000 @tocca:Ren' Antonio Mayorga @toc1:Part II: Decentralization, Legislatures, and Democratic Representation @toc2:6. Decentralized Politics and Political Outcomes in the Andes 000 @tocca:Kathleen O'Neill @toc2:7. The Nature of Representation in Andean Legislatures and Attempts at Institutional Reengineering 000 @tocca:Brian F. Crisp @toc1:Part III: Popular Politics and the Crisis of Democratic Representation @toc2:8. Urban Citizen Movements and Disempowerment in Peru and Venezuela 000 @tocca:Daniel H. Levine and Catalina Romero @toc2:9. Indigenous Politics in the Andes: Changing Patterns of Recognition, Reform, and Representation 000 @tocca:Deborah J. Yashar Part IV: Conclusion @toc2:10. State Deficiencies, Party Competition, and Confidence in Democratic Representation in the Andes 000 @tocca:Scott Mainwaring @toc4:Index 000

Reviews

Why Representation Fails is an important work covering issues concerning the Andean countries that previous scholarship has addressed insufficiently. At the book's core is a concern for the role of political parties in sustaining and enhancing the capacity of democratic institutions to represent citizen interests and serve the public. --Jorge Dominguez, Harvard University

“No other book provides such depth on the contemporary shortcomings of elections, parties, and legislatures in the Andean region. This volume furnishes a fresh, coherent conceptual framework for dealing with the issue of democratic representation—an approach that could be applied to many other nations.” —Paul Drake, University of California, San Diego

Author Information

Scott Mainwaring is Eugene Conley Professor of Political Science and Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Ana María Bejarano is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez is Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá.

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