Mandates and democracy : neoliberalism by surprise in Latin America
If politicians want to be reelected or see their party reelected at the end of their term, why would they impose unpopular policies? Susan Stokes develops a model of policy switches and tests it with statistical and qualitative data from Latin American elections over the last two decades.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, ©2001
xiii, 220 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780521805117, 9780521801188, 0521805112, 0521801184
318375117
1. Elections, mandates, and representation; 2. Electoral politics and economic policy in Latin America; 3. Explaining policy switches; 4. Are parties what's wrong with democracy in Latin America?: neoliberalism without mandates: citizens respond; 5. Mandates and democratic theory; 6. Summary, predictions, unsettled questions; References.
Reimpresión de 2006