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Book SynopsisA cross-national analysis of political recruitment and candidate selection in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. Provides typology and theoretical insights for other countries in the region and around the world.
Trade Review“This book sets the new scholarly standard for the analysis of the recruitment and selection of candidates for Congress and President in the major Latin American countries. The editors formulate a general framework to study the role of political parties in candidate selection. The authors apply it to the country studies for the legislature and the executive. The book is theoretically coherent, making it possible for the empirical case studies to generate genuinely comparable results. The result is a gem of rigorous scholarship that sheds light on understudied key questions for constitutional democratic politics. Its scholarship is excellent.”
—Jorge I. Domínguez,Harvard University
“Employing a common typology and framework, this outstanding collection provides the first sustained examination of issues of political recruitment and candidate selection for major legislative and executive posts in contemporary Latin America.”
—Jonathan Hartlyn,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“A heavily documented and scholarly sophisticated text, it will find its main audience with comparative politics scholars and advanced graduate students in the area of Latin American politics.”
—J.A. Rhodes Choice
“Pathways to Power represents an enormous undertaking by an illustrious team of scholars, and the rewards of this effort are substantial. The book opens a research agenda that previous studies have often acknowledged but less often pursued, because of the empirical demands of doing thorough comparative work on candidate selection. Siavelis and Morgenstern harness the resources, both conceptual and in the form of raw labor, to advance this agenda. The book is a major achievement, and those of us with an interest in political institutions and democracy in Latin America are the beneficiaries.”
—John M. Carey Latin American Politics and Society
Table of ContentsContents
Part I Theoretical Framework
1. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America:
A Framework for Analysis
Peter M. Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern
Part II Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection for the Legislative Branch
2. Legislative Candidates in Argentina
Mark P.Jones
3. Political Ambition, Candidate Recruitment, and Legislative Politics in Brazil
David Samuels
4. Legislative Candidate Selection in Chile
Patricio Navia
5. Mejor Solo Que Mal Acompañado: Political Entrepreneurs and List Proliferation in Colombia
Erika Moreno and Maria Escobar-Lemmon
6. Legislative Recruitment in Mexico
Joy Langston
7. Why Factions? Candidate Selection and Legislative Politics in Uruguay
Juan Andres Moraes
Part III Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection for the Executive Branch
8. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Argentina: Presidents and Governors, 1983 to 2006
Miguel De Luca
9. Political Recruitment in an Executive-Centric System: Presidents, Ministers, and Governors in Brazil
Timothy J. Power and Marilia G. Mochel
10. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Chile, 1990–2006: The Executive Branch
David Altman
11. Precandidates, Candidates, and Presidents: Paths to the Colombian Presidency
Steven L. Taylor, Felipe Botero, and Brian F. Crisp
12. Political Recruitment, Governance, and Leadership: How Democracy Has Made a Difference in Mexico
Roderic Ai Camp
13. Presidential Candidate Selection in Uruguay, 1942 to 2004
Daniel Buquet and Daniel Chasquetti
Part III Gender and Political Recruitment
14. How Do Candidate Recruitment and Selection Processes Affect Representation of Women?
Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor Robinson
Part IV Summary and Conclusions
15. Pathways to Power and Democracy in Latin America
Scott Morgenstern and Peter M. Siavelis
References
Index
About the Contributors
