'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America

Although Lijphart's typology of consensus and majoritarian democracy can be regarded as the most widely used tool to classify democratic regimes, it has been rarely applied to Latin America so far. We try to fill this gap by adapting Lijphart's typological framework to the Latin American c...

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Main Authors: Thomas Kestler, Juan Bautista Lucca, Silvana Krause
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Political Science Association 2016-04-01
Series:Brazilian Political Science Review
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bpsr/v10n1/1981-3821-bpsr-10-1-1981-38212016000100004.pdf