New 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 starting on October 1, 2009, and conducted jointly with Prof. Daniele Caramani at the University of St. Gallen, we study cleavage structures and citizen-party linkages in Latin America and Europe in comparative perspective. More specifically, the project explores how clientelistic linkages may be displaced by programmatic linkages in new democracies in the absence of the large-scale historical processes that account for party system formation in Western Europe. The project is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation until 2011.

» Summary of the research project