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Class and ethnicity, wealth, and ascriptive identity are two of the most common types of identifications around which people form domestic political coalitions.
Class and ethnicity, wealth, and ascriptive identity are two of the most common types of identifications around which people form domestic political coalitions. This project asks: why, in the context of party politics, do they sometimes identify one way rather than another? Rejecting common responses that highlight modernization or the degree of ethnic fractionalization, the project shows how party system crises provide political leaders with opportunities to shift political debate to their advantage, and how their efforts are constrained by the structure of social cleavages. Case material is drawn primarily from Bolivia to explain the recent rise of the "indigenous left" and from a new cross-national dataset on parties.
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