Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Explaining Mass Support for New Parties
- Part I Development of Mobilization Strategies
- 3 Mediated Appeals through Peak Associations
- 4 Direct Appeals
- 5 Mediated Appeals through Local Associations
- Part II Implications for Mass Support
- References
- Index
3 - Mediated Appeals through Peak Associations
MAS in Bolivia
from Part I - Development of Mobilization Strategies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Explaining Mass Support for New Parties
- Part I Development of Mobilization Strategies
- 3 Mediated Appeals through Peak Associations
- 4 Direct Appeals
- 5 Mediated Appeals through Local Associations
- Part II Implications for Mass Support
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the adoption of mobilization strategies in the case of the MAS in Bolivia. Drawing on extensive interviews with representatives of the party and societal organizations, as well as archival materials and ethnographic work in local organizations, it shows how the shared experience of moments of solidarity between the party proto-leaders and organizational allies during the party’s founding moments determined whether party–organization ties would later become institutionalized by adopting routinized rules and mechanisms that governed how candidates would be selected and factional disagreements would be settled. As it documents across different organizational allies of the party, where the party’s tie with an organization became institutionalized, these rules and mechanisms ensured that the party could rely on organizationally mediated strategies.
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- Creating PartisansThe Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America, pp. 69 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024