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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
- 1 Conservative Decay and Reaction
- 2 Conservative Parties in Latin America in Adverse Times
- 3 Crafting Partisanship in the Context of Party Organization Fragility
- 4 The Uneven Success of Uribismo in Colombia
- 5 Right-Wing Partisans in Contemporary Chile
- Part II A New Right? Ideational and Programmatic Change after the Left Turn
- References
- Index
2 - Conservative Parties in Latin America in Adverse Times
The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective
from Part I - Building Right-Wing Parties and Partisans
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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
- 1 Conservative Decay and Reaction
- 2 Conservative Parties in Latin America in Adverse Times
- 3 Crafting Partisanship in the Context of Party Organization Fragility
- 4 The Uneven Success of Uribismo in Colombia
- 5 Right-Wing Partisans in Contemporary Chile
- Part II A New Right? Ideational and Programmatic Change after the Left Turn
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyzes recent conservative efforts to build parties in Latin America. Its main case study is Argentina’s Republican Proposal (PRO) party, one of the most important examples of conservative party-building in Latin America. This chapter explains the success of right-wing parties born in nonauthoritarian contexts through the strategic decisions of leaders about whether to invest in high-cost resources (ideational and organizational) that will allow parties to take root in inhospitable contexts. This chapter demonstrates that the competitiveness of right-wing parties has been driven by three factors: programmatic innovation by personalistic leaders; organizational mobilization of both core and noncore constituencies; and an elite fear of the "Venezuela model."
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- The Recasting of the Latin American RightPolarization and Conservative Reactions, pp. 55 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024