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The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous Peoples’ Parties in South America: A Subnational Statistical Analysis
Ist Teil von
Comparative political studies, 2006-08, Vol.39 (6), p.709-732
Ort / Verlag
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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One of the most significant and unexpected developments in Latin America during the past 10 years is the emergence of parties organized around indigenous identity. The authors use subnational data from six South American countries (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) to examine the factors responsible for the variation in the emergence and performance of indigenous peoples’ political parties in the region. Using a pooled cross-sectional twin snapshot analysis, the authors find that although indigenous party formation is the result of favorable institutional, demographic, and political conditions, such as permissive electoral rules, optimal indigenous population size, and a regional diffusion effect with respect to indigenous activism, enhanced electoral performance of these parties is determined by structural and political conditions, including higher rates of poverty and less salient class-based identities, in addition to the favorable conditions mentioned above.