caa a22 4500 388079126 CHVBK 20180307125208.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585575 doi S0003055400218194 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585575 Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin America: A Test of Economic, Institutional, and Structural Explanations [Elektronische Daten] Three different theoretical explanations are tested for the exceptionally high level of electoral volatility found in contemporary Latin America: economic voting, institutional characteristics of political regimes and party systems, and the structure and organization of class cleavages. A pooled cross-sectional time-series regression analysis is conducted on 58 congressional elections and 43 presidential elections in 16 Latin American countries during the 1980s and 1990s. Institutional variables have the most consistent effect on volatility, while the influence of economic performance is heavily contingent upon the type of election and whether the dependent variable is operationalized as incumbent vote change or aggregate electoral volatility. The results demonstrate that electoral volatility is a function of short-term economic perturbations, the institutional fragilities of both democratic regimes and party systems, and relatively fluid cleavage structures. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Roberts Kenneth M. University of New Mexico Wibbels Erik University of New Mexico American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 575-590 0003-0554 93:3<575 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585575 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585575 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roberts Kenneth M. University of New Mexico NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wibbels Erik University of New Mexico NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 575-590 0003-0554 93:3<575 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge