Christian democracy in Latin America : electoral competition and regime conflicts

Author(s)

• Mainwaring, Scott
• Scully, Timothy

Bibliographic Information

Christian democracy in Latin America : electoral competition and regime conflicts

edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully

Stanford University Press, 2003

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1960s, and Costa Rica and Mexico in the 1980s. This book offers an overview of Christian Democracy in the region- underscoring its remarkable diversity-and examines the Christian Democratic organizations of Chile and Mexico, which are still major parties today. The concluding section analyzes the demise of formerly significant Christian Democratic parties in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. Christian Democracy in Latin America provides the definitive stufy of the nature, rise, and decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America. The book enriches the broader theoretical literature on political parties by highlighting the distinctive strategic dilemmas parties face, and the distinctive objectives they pursue, in contexts of fragile democracy or of authoritarian regimes.

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• NCID: BA64371560
• ISBN:
  • 0804745986
  • 0804745978
• LCCN: 2002015663
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 404 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JL969.A45
  • DC21 : 324.2/182/098
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christian democratic parties -- Latin America
  • LCSH : Christian democracy -- Latin America