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  • 1 - Introduction

  • from Part I - Discussing Machine Parties’ Power
  • Rodrigo Zarazaga, Instituto Universitario CIAS
  • Book:
    Poverty Shaping Politics
    Published online:
    05 May 2025
    Print publication:
    22 May 2025, pp 3-26

  • Summary

    This chapter uses the story of a Peronist broker mobilizing electoral support in an Argentine slum for the center-right coalition Cambiemos – the opposition to the Peronists – to introduce the central questions of this book: Why do parties rely on brokers to reach voters in slums? How can challenger parties recruit brokers to credibly compete with, and beat, hegemonic machine parties in impoverished districts? Why would brokers switch to work for a nonmachine party? The case of Cambiemos’ 2015 victory over Peronism in poor municipalities in Argentina offers valuable insights into how parties can unexpectedly challenge entrenched machine parties in democracies in the Global South and under what conditions brokers might change their party affiliation.