Abstract
This article conceptualizes party institutionalization and theorizes the conditions under which party elites invest in institutionalized parties in new democracies. We specify routinization and val...
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It has been argued that in new democracies, creating a permanent anchoring in society is time-consuming, laborintensive, and chosen only if no other option is available to build up support. If this is so, why do we find considerable diversity among parties in, for instance, Latin American democracies, with some parties being highly institutionalized, such as the Workers’ Party (PT) in Brazil or the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico, while others have remained weakly institutionalized in the long term such as the Ecuadorian Roldosista Party (PRE) and the Radical and Social Democratic Party (PRSD) in Chile? Generally speaking, why should party elites consider costly investments in a routinized and value-infused party base worthwhile in highly uncertain environments that incentivize electoral, “catchall” strategies and flexible, weakly institutionalized parties (Gunther and Hopkin 2009; Kirchheimer 1966; Lupu and Riedl 2013; Tavits 2013)?
Operationalization of party institutionalization The Democratic Accountability and Linkages Project (DALP) survey allows us to capture directly whether party elites invest in structures and practices that are closely associated with routinization and value infusion, respectively, which provides us with suitable proxies to measure each dimension empirically
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Constructing measures for routinization and value infusion based on expert survey data, we test our framework through multivariate regression models across parties in 18 Latin American democracies. Operationalization of party institutionalization The DALP survey allows us to capture directly whether party elites invest in structures and practices that are closely associated with routinization and value infusion, respectively, which provides us with suitable proxies to measure each dimension empirically.7
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