Different Parties, Same Voters: Social Cleavage Articulation and Electoral Volatility

• In Event: Electoral Politics in LAC

Brief Overview

The study posits that electoral volatility can be top-down, rooted in stable voter preferences and representation failures. It examines how variation in the articulation of cleavages, rather than salience, shapes electoral volatility outcomes.

Author

• Mariana Giusti-Rodriguez, Naval Postgraduate School