@book {64686,
	title = {Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective},
	year = {2003},
	month = {Apr 1, 2003},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	abstract = {Why did some Latin American labor\&$\#$45;based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a detailed study of the Argentine Peronism, as well as a broader comparative analysis, this book develops an organizational approach to party change. Levitsky{\textquoteright}s study breaks new ground in its focus on informal and weakly institutionalized party structures. It argues that loosely structured party organizations, such as those found in many populist labor\&$\#$45;based parties, are often better equipped to adapt to rapid environmental change than are more bureaucratic labor\&$\#$45;based parties. The argument is illustrated in the case of Peronism, a mass labor\&$\#$45;based party with a highly fluid internal structure. The book shows how this weakly routinized structure allowed party reformers to undertake a set of far\&$\#$45;reached coalitional and programmatic changes that enabled Peronism to survive, and even thrive, in the neoliberal era.},
	url = {http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521016975},
	author = {Levitsky, Steven}
}
