Project on cleavage structures and linkage practices in Latin America.

Three-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a project conducted jointly with Prof. Daniele Caramani at the University of St. Gallen

 In a new project that started in October 2009, conducted jointly with Prof. Daniele Caramani at the University of St. Gallen, I study cleavage structures and citizen-party linkages in Latin America and Europe in comparative perspective. More specifically, I explore how clientelistic linkages may be displaced by programmatic links between citizens and parties in contexts in which the large-scale historical processes that account for party system formation in Western Europe were absent. The project is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation until 2012.

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