1 IDEOLOGICAL CONGRUENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: EXPLORING PARTY- SUPPORTERS AND VOTERS LINKAGES (Paper in elaboration, please do not quote without permission) All comments welcome! Juan Manuel Trak Vásquez PhD (c) in Political Science University of Salamanca jtrak@usal.es and Tomáš Došek PhD Student in Political Science University of Salamanca tomas.dosek@usal.es Paper prepared for presentation at the Workshop ‘Legitimacy Under Attack: Coping with challenges to state sovereignty and institutional governance in Latin America and the Caribbean’ , Leiden University, The Netherlands. October 25-26, 2012.