Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Studying parliamentary elites in Latin America, 1994-2006 / Fátima García Díez and Araceli Mateos Díaz
  • The conundrum of representation / Patricia Marenghi and Mercedes García Montero
  • The meanings of democracy and institutional trust / Araceli Mateos Díaz
  • Legislators and political agendas / Manuel Alcántara Sáez
  • The organization of political parties / Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez
  • The dimensions of polarization in parliaments / Cristina Rivas Pérez
  • The determinants of intra-party ideological differences / Flavia Freidenberg, Fátima García Díez and Iván Llamazares Valduvieco
  • Programatic coherence / Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez
  • The parliamentary left / Salvador Martí i Puig and Salvador Santiuste Cué
  • The parliamentary right / Manuel Alcántara Sáez and Iván Llamazares Valduvieco
  • Legislative careers: does quality matter? / María del Mar Martínez Rosón
  • Politicians and politics in Latin America after twenty five years of democracy / Manuel Alcántara Sáez.