Brandon Van Dyck is assistant professor of government and law at Lafayette College. He specializes in the study of political parties and political regimes, with a regional focus on Latin America. He is coeditor of Challenges of Party Building in Latin America.

In this insightful, impressive, and well-documented study, Brandon Van Dyck challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy facilitates party building. The organizational analysis he develops convincingly explains the divergent fates of a broad array of new left contenders in Latin America while offering important and broader lessons for party building in our media-driven times.

Brandon Van Dyck is assistant professor of government and law at Lafayette College. He specializes in the study of political parties and political regimes, with a regional focus on Latin America. He is coeditor of Challenges of Party Building in Latin America.

In this insightful, impressive, and well-documented study, Brandon Van Dyck challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy facilitates party building. The organizational analysis he develops convincingly explains the divergent fates of a broad array of new left contenders in Latin America while offering important and broader lessons for party building in our media-driven times.

Brandon Van Dyck is assistant professor of government and law at Lafayette College. He specializes in the study of political parties and political regimes, with a regional focus on Latin America. He is coeditor of Challenges of Party Building in Latin America.

In this insightful, impressive, and well-documented study, Brandon Van Dyck challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy facilitates party building. The organizational analysis he develops convincingly explains the divergent fates of a broad array of new left contenders in Latin America while offering important and broader lessons for party building in our media-driven times.