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- The Resilience of the Latin American Right
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
summary
This comparative study of Latin American conservative politics over the past twenty years analyzes right-of-center actors, electoral movements, parties, and economic policy dynamics.Since the late 1990s, when Latin American countries began making a “turn to the left,” political parties and candidates on the right end of the partisan spectrum have had a difficult time achieving electoral success. Although the left turn can be seen as a natural reaction to the public’s general dissatisfaction with the conservative modernization policies of the 1980s and 1990s, left-of-center politics are by no means permanent. In The Resilience of the Latin American Right, Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser seek to “right” this view by explaining the strategies conservative political parties have used to maintain a foothold in the region’s electoral and governance processes. The editors provide an analytical framework for conceptualizing the right that works for both historic and contemporary politics, and the volume’s contributors use the framework to evaluate right-of-center political activity across the continent. They find that conservative forces are pursuing a range of adaptive strategies, including nonelectroral and nonpartisan tactics. The book’s four thematic sections include an analysis of parties and elections in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. ix-xiv
- Part I: Contemporary Context
- Part II: The Nonelectoral Right
- Part III: The Electoral, Nonpartisan Right
- Part IV: The Partisan Right
- List of Contributors
- pp. 367-370
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421413914
Related ISBN(s)
9781421413891, 9781421413907
MARC Record
OCLC
1139364953
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-19
Language
English
Open Access
No