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When and why are right-wing populist parties electorally successful in developing democracies? What are the economic consequences of their electoral success? This book presents an original theoretical framework that is grounded in the socio-economic characteristics of developing countries to answer these questions and provides evidence for its theo
O voto, um dos pilares da democracia, é a forma de expressão da vontade popular e do exercício da sua soberania, consumada através da representação dos cidadãos nos órgãos governamentais. Dada sua importância nas democracias representativas, compreender o comportamento do eleitor tornou-se um dos maiores desafios das ciências políticas. Em meados do século XX, despontaram nos Estados Unidos da América os primeiros construtos teóricos baseados em distintas raízes epistemológicas, estabelecendo assim, os paradigmas de comportamento eleitoral das escolas sociológica, econômica e psicossocial, que substanciaram a fundamentação teórica deste trabalho. Em "Corredeiras da Demo...
Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil; what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This book shows that soon after redemocratization in the 1980s, over half of Brazilian voters expressed either a strong affinity or antipathy for or against a particular political party. In particular, that the contours of positive and negative partisanship in Brazil have mainly been shaped by how people feel about one party - the Workers' Party (PT). Voter behavior in Brazil has largely been structured around sentiment for or against this one party, and not any of Brazil's many others. The authors show how the PT managed to successfully cultivate widespread partisanship in a difficult environment, and also explain the emergence of anti-PT attitudes. They then reveal how positive and negative partisanship shape voters' attitudes about politics and policy, and how they shape their choices in the ballot booth.
Relatos y crónicas radicales es una mirada objetiva del partido más antiguo de Argentina en estos cuarenta años de democracia, a través del relato histórico de hechos que sucedieron y personajes que se involucraron en la vida democrática del país y de la provincia de Santiago de Estero. Este relato se traslada particularmente al pequeño pueblo de Fernández, desde la década del cuarenta, cuando los inquietos habitantes comenzaron a expresar sus convicciones para resolver los conflictos de la sociedad y promover la calidad de vida, sus derechos y obligaciones. Épocas de consensos, pese a la disparidad de ideas; épocas de buscar el bien común, de dictar leyes para mejorar la educac...
The general perception of modern Latin American political institutions emphasizes a continuing and random process of disorder and crisis, continually out of step with other regions in their progress toward democracy and prosperity. In "History of Political Parties in Twentieth-Century Latin America," Torcuato S. Di Tella demonstrates that this common view lacks context and comparative nuance, and is deeply misleading. Looking behind the scenes of modern Latin American history, he discerns its broad patterns through close analysis of actual events and comparative sociological perspectives that explain the apparent chaos of the past and point toward the more democratic polity now developing. D...
Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy's Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.
"Deftly bridging literary conventions, this compelling work exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Krause combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics that have raised alarm across Europe and the United States, and manifested, for example, in Italy's extremely low birthrate. But what actually motivates people to have fewer children? Krause turns to the evocative story of one woman, Emilia Raugei, who was born in a Tuscan hill town in 1920 and worked as a straw weaver in a rapidly globalizing economy, to better understand this question. Based on extensive fieldwork, including ind...
Este livro trata das crises contemporâneas da democracia tendo como ponto de partida problemas que assolam democracias em países na América do Sul, na África e no Sul da Europa. Os textos do volume dialogam com as recentes teorias que entendem a crise da democracia como processos de erosão das instituições, de valores democráticos e da confiança, ou de expansão da racionalidade neoliberal que estreita o espaço da política e mina relações igualitárias. Os textos identificam potencialidades e limites das teorias que circulam globalmente, contribuindo para a compreensão dos processos de desdemocratização em curso nos países da terceira onda. Sugerem também temas que requerem atenção: as interações entre crise, neoliberalismo e protestos, impactos da crise política (e da crise sanitária) sobre a participação, o papel das instituições judiciais. Há ainda análises sobre impactos da internet sobre a democracia, reflexões sobre a reconstrução de políticas de bem-estar social e as particularidades de como cidadãos entendem o autoritarismo no Brasil contemporâneo.