• Chapter 1: Welcome to the Machine


• Chapter 2: Dominant-Party Citizens


• Chapter 3: Conceptualizing and Measuring Dominant-Party Enclaves


• Chapter 4: Tilling the Soil of an Uneven Landscape: Dirty Politics in Dominant-Party Enclaves


• Chapter 5: The View From Inside the Machine: Democratic Attitudes in Dominant-Party Enclaves


• Chapter 6: Severed Linkages: Distorted Accountability in Dominant-Party Enclaves


• Chapter 7: Stacking the Deck: Political Participation in Dominant-Party Enclaves


• Chapter 8: Conclusion


• References


• Appendix

Jonathan T. Hiskey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on the impact that Latin America's uneven democratization processes have had on various local political and development outcomes in the region.
Mason W. Moseley is Assistant Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. His research interests lie in comparative political behavior and public opinion, and he has published on protest, clientelism, and civic engagement, particularly in Latin America. He is the author of Protest State: The Rise of Everyday Contention in Latin America.

Life in the Political Machine explores the political lives of everyday citizens who find themselves embedded in subnational dominant-party enclaves that lie within national-level democracies. While we know quite a bit about why such enclaves emerge and persist, we know very little about how those individuals living within them think about and engage with politics. This book offers one of the first systematic explorations of the ways in which subnational "dominant-party enclaves" influence citizens' political attitudes and behaviors through a focus on the provinces and states of Argentina and Mexico.