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dc.titlePartisanship, Ideology, and Representation in Latin America
dc.contributor.authorSaiegh, Sebastián
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageMexico
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageBrazil
dc.coveragePeru
dc.coverageLatin America
dc.date.available2014-08-27T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2014-08-26T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the findings reveal that the "median" voter in Latin America is located to the left of the ideological spectrum, and that voter's ideological locations are highly correlated with their partisan attachments. The location of parties and leaders suggests that three distinctive clusters exist: one located at the left of the political spectrum, another at the center, and a third to the right. The results also indicate that legislators in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru tend to be more "leftist" than their voters. The ideological drift, however, is not large enough to substantiate the claim that a representation gap exists in those countries.
dc.format.extent33
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011656
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Partisanship-Ideology-and-Representation-in-Latin-America.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectCivil Society
dc.subjectPublic Administration
dc.subject.jelcodeC83 - Survey Methods • Sampling Methods
dc.subject.jelcodeO54 - Latin America • Caribbean
dc.subject.jelcodeY80 - Related Disciplines
dc.subject.keywordsIdeological drift;Partisanship;Representation gap;Ideology
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
idb.operationRG-X1128
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