The Resilience of the Latin American Right - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1421413892 ISBN 13: 9781421413891

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Juan Pablo Luna is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at the Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is an associate professor at the School of Political Science, Diego Portales University (Chile).

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1421413892
• ISBN 13: 9781421413891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Luna Juan Pablo, Rovira Kaltwasser Cristóbal