Ecuador: Programmatic Or Personalistic? Pachakutik Strategies In Ecuador's 2006 Elections

Ecuador: Programmatic Or Personalistic? Pachakutik Strategies In Ecuador's 2006 Elections Karleen Jones West, 2011   Many scholars of Latin America have assumed that ethnic parties are able to avoid the personalistic tendencies of traditional parties, and capture votes primarily due to their party platforms, rather than with the provision of pork, patronage, or other tangible goods. In this paper, I examine this assumption through an analysis of the campaign strategies of ethnic party...

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