Latin America's pendular politics : electoral cycles and alternations / Olivier Dabène, editor.
Dabène, Olivier, editor.
2023
F1414.3 .L38 2023
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Title Latin America's pendular politics : electoral cycles and alternations / Olivier Dabène, editor.
ISBN 3031267613 electronic book
9783031267611 (electronic bk.)
3031267605
9783031267604
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26761-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 382 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-26761-1 doi
Call Number F1414.3 .L38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 980.03
Summary This book explores pendular politics in Latin America, focusing on electoral cycles with a pattern of similar results. Latin America has been neoliberal in the 1990s, leftist during the 2000s, then conservative in 2016-2018 and progressist again since 2018. The reference to a right/left/right/left sequence over a period of thirty years undoubtedly accounts for a singular pendulum pattern yet proves to be excessively simplistic. The right/left dichotomy hides fractures and nuances that characterize each political camp. This book seeks to explain why some elections result in alternations and others do not. Based on an innovative theoretical framework and a unique collection of case studies, the book offers a rich understanding of Latin Americas contemporary political evolutions. Voters are getting accustomed to punishing incumbents for not delivering in time of crises, resulting in frequent alternations. It might be good for democracy, not so much for governability. Olivier Dabne is Professor of Political Science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and Senior Researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI, Sciences Po), France. He is also the President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (www.sciencespo.fr/opalc) and Visiting Professor in many Latin American universities.
Note 7.1 The Rules of the Institutional Game and the Political Conjuncture
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 27th, 2023).
Added Author Dabène, Olivier, editor.
Series Studies of the Americas.
Available in Other Form Latin America's Pendular Politics
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Intro
Contents
Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Electoral Cycles, Continuity, and Change in Latin American Politics: A Framework for Analysis
1.1 Electoral Alternations in Latin America
1.2 Typology of Alternations
1.2.1 Degree of Alternations
1.2.2 Temporality of Alternations
1.2.3 Content of Alternations
1.3 Looking for Factors of Alternation
1.4 The Database
1.5 Explaining Alternations
1.6 The Conservative Turn
1.6.1 Conservative Rhetoric
1.6.2 Voters' Radicalization

1.7 Closing Remarks
References
Part I Conservative Alternations
2 New Political Cycle in Chile: From Centrist Consensus to the Struggle for Cultural Hegemony
2.1 Centrist Consensus and Moderate Reformism (1990-2013)
2.2 The Cycle of Hegemonic Disputes
2.3 Birth and Rise of the Frente Amplio
2.4 Conclusion
References
3 Step Right or Step Ahead? Explaining the 2019 Presidential Swing in Uruguay
3.1 A More Attractive Political Offer on the Right
3.2 Uruguay's Electoral System and the Relative Victory of Coalitions

3.3 A Moderate Program from the Right Calling Out for Change Throughout Continuity
3.4 Conclusion
References
4 Radicalizing Alternation: Political Change and Degraded Democracy in El Salvador (2019-2021)
4.1 The Path to Radical Change
4.1.1 The 2018 Legislative and Municipal Elections
4.1.2 The Presidential Election of February 2019
4.1.3 The 2021 Legislative and Municipal Elections
4.2 Delegative Democracy in El Salvador?
4.2.1 Voting for a Charismatic Leader Above Parties
4.2.2 Radical Political Shift: What About Values?

4.3 Conclusion: From Alternation to the Endangerment of Democracy
References
5 Guatemala, an Alternation in Continuity
5.1 An Inevitable Alternation
5.1.1 Jimmy Morales' Very Negative Image
5.1.2 An Illegible Political Offer
5.2 How to Explain the Failure of Sandra Torres?
5.2.1 Sandra Torres' Unexpected Competitors
5.2.2 The Loss of Territories Despite a Significant Abstention
5.2.3 "Sandrophobia": The Importance of the Anti-Sandra Torres Vote
5.3 Alternation at the Legislative and Municipal Levels?
5.3.1 Alternation at the Legislative Level?

5.3.2 Alternation at the Municipal Level?
5.4 Alternation and Territorial Divide
5.5 Conclusion
References
6 The Return of the Divided Rights: Alternations in Peru
6.1 The Return in Force of a Divided Right
6.2 Hurricane Odebrecht on the Peruvian Political Class
6.3 Non-electoral Alternations Within the Government
6.4 The Renewal of All Peruvian Political Personnel
References
Part II Progressist Alternations
7 Polarization, Depolarization, and (Re)polarization: The 2019 Electoral Process and a New Alternation in Argentine Democracy

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