Introduction: Challenges of party-building in Latin America -- Part I : Party-voter linkage and challenges of brand-building -- Historical timing, political cleavages, and party-building in Latin America -- Building party brands in argentina and Brazil -- Segmented party-voter linkages: The success of chile's independent democratic union and uruguay's broad front -- Part II : Challenges of organization-building -- The paradox of adversity: New left party survival and collapse in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina -- The Niche party: Authoritarian regime legacies and party-building in new democracies -- Patronage, subnational linkages, and party-building: The cases of Colombia and Peru -- Money for nothing? public financing and party-building in Latin America -- Part III : Organizational inheritance: alternative platforms for party-building -- Authoritarian successor parties and the new right in Latin America -- Insurgent successor parties: Scaling down to build a party after war -- Obstacles to ethnic parties in Latin America -- Party-building in Brazil: The rise of the PT in perspective -- The organizational foundations of corporation-based parties -- Part IV : Failed cases (And a future one) Challenges of party-building in the bolivian east -- Why no party-building in Peru? -- Past the poof moment: Cuba's future political parties -- Conclusions: Latin American parties, past and present

1. Political parties -- Latin America
2. Party affiliation -- Latin America
3. Latin America -- Politics and government -- 21st century