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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
7 - The Latin American Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
Constraints and Opportunities
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
The aim of this chapter is to provide an understanding of the structural constraints and opportunities for the populist radical right (PRR) in Latin America. Unlike Western Europe, material values are still of vital importance in many Latin American countries because of high levels of inequality in the region. This represents a major constraint for the emergence of the PRR, and only some parties have been able to overcome it. The author argues that the growth of the PRR relies on three factors: the appeal of the PRR’s hardline discourses, the mobilization of voters dissatisfied with sexual and reproductive rights and secularization, and a crisis of representation among the traditional parties, who are painted by PRR leaders as a corrupt elite.
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- The Recasting of the Latin American RightPolarization and Conservative Reactions, pp. 158 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024