Can Civil Society Organizations Solve the Crisis of Partisan Representation in Latin America?
This article takes up the question of whether civil society organizations (CSOs) can and do act as mechanisms of representation in times of party crisis. It looks at recent representation practices in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, three countries where political parties have experienced sharp cris...
| Published in: | Latin American Politics & Society Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 1 - 33 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Summer 2008
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