Resumen

ALTMAN, DAVID; LUNA, JUAN PABLO; PINEIRO, RAFAEL  y  TORO, SERGIO. Parties and Party Systems in Latin America: Perspectives from an Expert Survey 2009. Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago) [online]. 2009, vol.29, n.3, pp.775-798. ISSN 0718-090X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2009000300005.

This research note presents a classification of Latin American parties and party systems, according to mainstream ideological currents and country-specific competitive patterns. This classification is based on a preliminary analysis of the results of an expert survey on Latin American party systems that was carried out from 2007 to 2009. We factor-analyze parties' positions on a wide set of issues and estimate three (latent) ideological dimensions: statism, conservatism (moral, religious, nationalist), and attitudes towards democracy. Based on these three ideological dimensions we perform a cluster analysis and classify the political parties of the region in ten "ideological families".

Palabras clave : Parties; Experts Survey; Latin America.

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