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The Federal Dilemma: Organisational Strategies and the Consolidation of Parties in Mexico and Argentina
Author(s) -
OLMEDA JUAN C.,
SUAREZCAO JULIETA
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12594
Subject(s) - consolidation (business) , dilemma , federalism , politics , political science , public administration , political economy , business , sociology , law , philosophy , epistemology , accounting
What accounts for the consolidation of party organisations? The specialised literature has stressed the importance of institutions in shaping the ways in which political parties organise. However, little attention has been paid to the role of federalism. We argue that in federal settings, party territorial organisational strategies condition their capacity to become consolidated parties. We illustrate our theory with an analysis of the development of conservative parties in Argentina and Mexico to explain their different levels of consolidation.