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Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America

Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective

Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America( )
Author: Levitsky, Steven
ISBN:978-0-511-61564-1
Publication Date:Dec 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $270.00
Book Description:

Explains why some contemporary Latin American labor-based parties adapted successfully to the challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline. It argues that loosely structured party organizations tend to be more flexible than the bureaucratic structures found in most labor-based parties through an analysis of the Argentine (Peronist) Justicialista Party (PJ).

Author Biography
Levitsky, Steven (Author)
Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist and Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on Latin America and the developing world. He is the author of Competitive Authoritarianism, (with co-author Lucan A. Way in 2010), and How Democracies Die (with co-author Daniel Ziblatt in 2018). He is co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (2005). He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards.

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