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Vol. 29 No. 3 (2009)

Parties and party systems in Latin America: perspectives from an Expert Survey 2009

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2009000300005
Submitted
January 14, 2020
Published
2020-01-14

Abstract

This research note presents a classification of Latin American parties and party systems, according to mainstream ideological currents and country-specific competitive patterns. This classification is based on a preliminary analysis of the results of an expert survey on Latin American party systems that was carried out from 2007 to 2009. We factor-analyze parties’ positions on a wide set of issues and estimate three (latent) ideological dimensions: statism, conservatism (moral, religious, nationalist), and attitudes towards democracy. On the basis of these three ideological dimensions we perform a cluster analysis and classify the political
parties of the region in ten “ideological families”.

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