Aspects of contemporary Latin American politics

Abstract

The works included in this panel shed light over a series of salient developments in Latin American politics, using rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Two papers are two regional-level analyses covering (1) how patterns of urbanization affect voting behavior across the region and (2) how the determinants of invalid voting can be inferred through the study of extreme cases. Then the other three articles are single-country studies of (3) how institutional conflict is reproduced and modulated on Twitter in Venezuela, (4) the continued relevance of class voting in Paraguay in the context of one-party domination, and (5) the deployment of anti-communist discourse in contemporary Mexico starting with the campaign for the 2006 election.

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FARC Guerrilla Ex-Combatants and the Emergence of Food Markets as a Strategy for Peacebuilding in Colombia	View Paper Details
Can Urbanization Explain Voting Patterns In Latin America?	View Paper Details
Exploring Individual And Aggregate Patterns Of Class Voting In The Context Of The 2018 Paraguayan Election	View Paper Details
Current Traces Of The Cold War: Post-soviet Anticommunism In Mexico And The New Regional Ideological Dispute	View Paper Details
Spoiled Opportunities And Blank Stares: A Comparative Study Of Invalid Voting As Protest Behaviour	View Paper Details