Parties and Democracy
This weeks reading was over the importance of political parties for democracy. Levitsky and Cameron make several good points of why parties are important in Latin America and I personally agree with most of it. A few are that parties…
The Expectation for Political Parties
Political parties enable the government to work with more ease and cater to the issues of a wider range of the public. Parties also socialize elected officials to be accountable to their constituents, which is an essential pillar of democracy….
Democracy without Party Regimes? A Comparison with the PRI and an Explanation of Racial Politics in Peru
In Levitsky and Cameron’s article, they argue that political parties are essential for the success of democracy, and use the modern example of Peru’s decomposition of the party system which allowed the rise of an authoritarian regime. They seek to explain…