This dissertation is composed of three articles that focus on the electoral support coalitions of populist parties in Latin America. Using typologies, comparative-historical analysis, and experimental methods, the articles conceptualize and explain variation across several dimensions of these coalitions: their size and scope, their level of organization, and the identities of their members. Although the three articles are self-contained, they are connected through the theme of societal polarization. They theorize and present evidence for how populism can bring different social groups together in their opposition to political elites and of how they can pit different sectors of society against each other on their way to power.

Creator

• Barrenechea Carpio, Rodrigo

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-q6bk-j281

Subject

• Political science

Language

• en

Alternate Identifier

• http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14777
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Date created

• 2019-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright