Class and Conservative Parties by Edward L Gibson

Class and Conservative Parties by Edward L Gibson

What promotes or hinders the development of conservative parties in Latin America? What does this augur for the stable representation of the propertied and socially privileged in political parties? In Class and Conservative Parties, Edward L. Gibson examines these questions in light of Latin America's long legacies of authoritarianism and democratic instability. Gibson explores these questions theoretically, historically and comparatively. He develops an approach to the comparative study of conservative parties that sheds new theoretical light on the social dynamics of party politics. Historically, he traces the determinants of conservative party development in Argentina, providing a rich analysis of how interactions between conservatism's elite "core constituencies," party leaders, and the state shaped the rise and fall of conservative parties in the 19th and 20th centuries. Gibson also presents a comparative examination of conservative party politics in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s and offers a thoughtful look ahead to conservatism's future in the region.

Goes far beyond the Argentine case and provides us with an insightful, theoretically challenging contribution to the comparative study of conservative partiesJournal of Latin American Studies The theoretical framework raises relevant questions for democracies everywhere. Journal of Politics

Edward Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.

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ISBN 13	9780801867217
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Title	Class and Conservative Parties
Author	Edward L Gibson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	2001-07-11
Number of pages	296
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