Vínculos ideológicos y éxito electoral en América Latina

  1. Otero Felipe, Patricia 1
  2. Rodríguez Zepeda, Juan Antonio 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

  2. 2 University of Pittsburgh
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    University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos

    ROR https://ror.org/01an3r305

Revista:
Política y gobierno

ISSN: 1405-1060 1685-2037

Any de publicació: 2014

Volum: 21

Número: 1

Pàgines: 159-200

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: Política y gobierno

Resum

In this paper we explore the ability of Latin American political parties to build ideological linkages with the electorate and the extent to which those linkages are transformed into votes. We also find the party-level variables that predict the levels of ideological voting for the parties in the region. The results show that party age, radicalism and participation in government have a significant effect on the proportion of ideological voters that the parties’ electorate. Moreover, the analysis illustrates that those parties that increase their amount of votes between elections also increase their number of ideological voters.