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- The Recasting of the Latin American Right
- The Recasting of the Latin American Right
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Building Right-Wing Parties and Partisans
- Part II A New Right? Ideational and Programmatic Change after the Left Turn
- 6 Progressive Policy Change, Cultural Backlash, and Party Polarization in Latin America
- 7 The Latin American Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
- 8 Between Gattopardismo and Ideational Change
- 9 Whose Right, Whose Left? Analyzing the Complexities of Right-Wing Politics in Venezuela
- 10 A Conversion to the Right
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
8 - Between Gattopardismo and Ideational Change
The Mainstream Chilean Right’s Winding Road to Moderation
from Part II - A New Right? Ideational and Programmatic Change after the Left Turn
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- The Recasting of the Latin American Right
- The Recasting of the Latin American Right
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Building Right-Wing Parties and Partisans
- Part II A New Right? Ideational and Programmatic Change after the Left Turn
- 6 Progressive Policy Change, Cultural Backlash, and Party Polarization in Latin America
- 7 The Latin American Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
- 8 Between Gattopardismo and Ideational Change
- 9 Whose Right, Whose Left? Analyzing the Complexities of Right-Wing Politics in Venezuela
- 10 A Conversion to the Right
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter explains how the Chilean right has been reconfigured due to the multidimensional crisis that has shaken Chile since the end of 2019. The authors analyze how tensions regarding competition and identity have affected relevant actors and structured their perceptions, calculations, and behaviors. They examine the ideational changes and continuities of the Chilean right’s road to moderation. They argue that the joint processes of liberalization and democratization gave rise to a gattopardista strategy of “changing so that things may remain the same.” This was characterized by the programmatic moderation of coalition candidates until the 2017 campaign, with traditional right-wing parties moving to the center to the extent that they did not threaten the pillars of the neoliberal model. However, when centrist and left-wing parties aimed to significantly reform the institutional core, the traditional right did react, and moved further to the right on the ideological continuum.
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- The Recasting of the Latin American RightPolarization and Conservative Reactions, pp. 176 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024