Christian democracy in Latin America : electoral competition and regime conflicts /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-, Scully, Timothy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. OVERVIEWS
  • Party objectives in authoritarian regimes with elections or fragile democracies: a dual game / Scott Mainwaring
  • Diversity of Christian democracy in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully
  • Transformation of Christian democratic ideology: transcending left and right, or whatever happened to the third way? / Paul E. Sigmund
  • Sowing ideas: explaining the origins of Christian democratic parties in Latin America / Kirk A. Hawkins
  • PART II. TWO MAJOR CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARITES
  • Highly institutionalized political party: Christian democracy in Chile / Carlos Huneeus
  • Future of Chilean Christian democracy / Ignacio Walker
  • National Action Party (PAN): from the fringes of the political system to the heart of change / Soledad Loaeza
  • Catching all souls: the Partido Acción Nacional and the politics of religion in Mexico / Beatriz Magaloni and Alejandro Moreno
  • PART III. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTIES IN DECLINE
  • Rise and decline of COPEI in Venezuela / Brian F. Crisp, Daniel H. Levine, and José E. Molina
  • Limits of reformism: the rise and fall of Christian democracy in El Salvador and Guatemala / Philip J. Williams and Guillermina Seri
  • Great minority: Christian democracy in Peru / Gregory D. Schmidt
  • Transformation and decline of Christian