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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
6 - Progressive Policy Change, Cultural Backlash, and Party Polarization in Latin America
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 uses data from the Dataset of Parties, Elections, and Ideology in Latin America (DPEILA) to understand the recent rightward move being seen in many party systems within the region, as well as the subsequent process of party-system polarization. The authors argue that major economic downturns favor radical, antisystem alternatives, thereby creating an opportunity for newly created parties to campaign on extreme policy platforms. They also demonstrate that polarization increases when leftist incumbents are associated with progressive policy change, as right-wing parties have become more ideologically extreme. This indicates that the left turn of the 2000s has at times favored the radicalization of important sectors of the right.
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- The Recasting of the Latin American RightPolarization and Conservative Reactions, pp. 139 - 157Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024