"Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? Brian Palmer-Rubin contends that we may lay the blame on these countries' systems of interest representation, which exhibit "biased pluralism," a...

Scholars have increasingly turned to fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to conduct small and medium-N studies, arguing that it combines the most desired elements of variable-oriented and case oriented research. This article demonstrates, however, that fsQCA is an extraordinarily...

Transitions to market models have had an important impact on the structure of the labor market and on structures of interest representation of the working classes in Latin America. They have produced pressure for a more flexibiized labor market and a shift within the working classes from the...