Los Break-in parties en América Latina: ¿éxito o fracaso?

Abstract

This research note outlines the theoretical development and methodological design of the researchproject “Break-in parties in Latin America: Success or Failure?”. The aim of the project is toanalyze the characteristics of parties that manage to break into the party system – to clarify howstructural conditions at the moment of genesis affect the “inward” and “outward” development ofthese parties and to explain how its origin and development are linked to their subsequent successor failure. To expose these objectives, in this research-note we procede as follows: first, we offer aliterature review on the emergence of new parties; second, we discuss what is “new” in these kindsof organizations; and third, we explain our theoretical and methodological approach to analyze thebreak-in parties in Latin America.

Keywords

• Break-in Parties
• Latin America
• New Political Parties
• Challenger Parties and Party System
• Political Behavior of Party‟s Elite
• Democratic Consolidation.