Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America
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Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America
By (Author) Andy Baker
By (author) Barry Ames
By (author) Lcio Renn
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Comparative politics
Elections and referenda / suffrage
324.98
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
How voting behavior in Latin America is influenced by social networks and everyday communication among peers In Latin America's new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns. In a typical presidential election season, between one-quarter and one-half
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"Winner of the Best Book Award, Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association"
Author Bio
Andy Baker is professor of political science and director of the Program on International Development at the University of Colorado Boulder. Barry Ames is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Pittsburgh. Lcio Renn is professor of political science at the University of Braslia.
