Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle

Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle
ISBN-10
0197537529
ISBN-13
9780197537527
Category
Political Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2021-06-11
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
James Loxton

Description

Voice and Inequality is about conservative parties in Latin America. James Loxton examines parties formed between 1978 and 2010 and tries to understand why some were more successful than others. The main puzzle is the surprising connection between roots in dictatorship and success under democracy. What allowed "authoritarian successor parties" in countries like Chile and El Salvador to succeed, while those with more democratic origins in countries likeArgentina and Guatemala failed? It argues that this was not a coincidence: the former inherited valuable resources from the old regime that helped them to thrive in the new.

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