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17184 results in Latin American government, politics and policy

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  • Allies and Traitors: Vice-Presidents in Latin America

  • Leiv Marsteintredet, Fredrik Uggla
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 January 2019, pp. 665-688
    Print publication:
    August 2019

  • Vice-presidents in Latin America have often been at the centre of political turbulence. To prevent conflicts within the executive, most Latin American countries have therefore put in place formulae to elect presidents and vice-presidents on a joint electoral ticket. Still, it is common for presidential candidates to pick running mates from other parties in order to construct alliances and appeal to a broader set of voters. But the presence of such ‘external’ vice-presidents seems to increase the risk of presidential interruption in general and impeachment processes in particular. Accordingly, we argue that the frequently overlooked institution of the vice-president deserves attention as a possible intervening variable that can contribute to the explanation for government crises and their outcomes in Latin America.

  • Against a Continental Threat: Transnational Anti-Communist Networks of the Chilean Right Wing in the 1950s

  • Marcelo Casals
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 January 2019, pp. 523-548
    Print publication:
    August 2019

  • Drawing on minutes, publications, diplomatic documents and the written press, I explore the transnational networks of the Chilean right wing within Latin America in the 1950s, especially around the four Congresses against Soviet Intervention in Latin America held in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Lima and Antigua between 1954 and 1958. I argue that the Chilean right wing's participation in those networks alongside other Latin American like-minded actors was based on both its long local experience in fighting communism and its attachment to Cold War anti-communism. In these transnational spaces, some Chilean right-wingers gained recognition and prestige, as was the case with the conservative leader Sergio Fernández Larraín, largely thanks to his systematic denunciation of supposed Soviet penetration in the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), then the ruling party in Bolivia.

Non-Policy Politics
  • Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies
  • Ernesto Calvo, Maria Victoria Murillo
  • Published online:
    25 January 2019
    Print publication:
    14 February 2019
  • Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Different from much of the existing research, which focuses on the implementation of policy or on the delivery of clientelistic benefits, this book provides a unified view of how politicians deliver broad portfolios of policy and non-policy benefits to their constituency. The authors' theory shows how these non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions and which type of electoral offers they target to poorer or richer voters. With exhaustive empirical work, both qualitative and quantitative, the research documents how linkages between parties and voters shape the delivery of non-policy benefits in Argentina and Chile.

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