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  • 13 Feb 2025
    Belén Fernández Milmanda

    Agrarian Elites’ Representation, Democracy and Inequality in Latin America

    How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]

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  • 22 Jul 2019
    Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner

    Polarization and the Fight over Party Structure

    Debates over party structure and party organization have been long-running throughout American political history. Starting with Andrew Jackson and his reforms of the party system, later joined by the Progressive movement and its battle against machine politics, there has been a persistent struggle, a war if you want, over party organization and the associated leverage […]

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