• DOI:10.1177/0010414012445753
Corpus ID: 55404711

The Rise of Outsiders in Latin America, 1980–2010

@article{Carreras2012TheRO,
  title={The Rise of Outsiders in Latin America, 1980–2010},
  author={M. Carreras},
  journal={Comparative Political Studies},
  year={2012},
  volume={45},
  pages={1451 - 1482}
}

M. Carreras

Published 2012

Sociology

Comparative Political Studies

One of the most significant developments in Latin American democracies since the beginning of the third wave of democratization is the rise to political prominence of outsider candidates in presidential elections. I use an original database of political outsiders in Latin America to examine the institutional factors that contribute to the emergence of political outsiders. Using a fixed effects variance decomposition (FEVD) model, I find that, in addition to the favorable conditions already… CONTINUE READING

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