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Partisanship and Policy Choice

What's Left for the Left in Latin America?

University of Connecticut, Storrs, peter.kingstone{at}uconn.edu

Joseph Young

Southern Illinois University, jkyoung{at}siu.edu

Leftists seem to be on the rise in Latin America, but it is unclear to what extent this impacts policy. Thus, a crucial question hangs over this apparent "shift" in regional preferences: does the left have any real options to offer? Or in Latin America in an age of globalization, "what's left for the left?" The contending perspectives are compared, and then the evidence is evaluated using a series of econometric models. In sum, no discernible policy differences between the left and the rest were found. In the conclusion, the implications of this result for Latin American democracy are discussed.

Key Words: Latin America • global economy • neoliberal reform • partisanship

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1, 29-41 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1065912908314198


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