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The Rise of Ethnopopulism in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Raúl L. Madrid
Raúl L. Madrid
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University of Texas at Austin, [email protected].
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Abstract

Latin America had long been the one region in the world without major ethnic parties, but in recent years a couple of inclusive ethnic parties have registered important electoral victories. A substantial literature maintains that ethnic parties win by mobilizing their base through exclusionary ethnic appeals, but this article argues that such appeals are unlikely to be successful in regions such as Latin America, where ethnic polarization is low and ethnic identification is fluid and multiple. In these areas, inclusive strategies are more likely to be successful. Indeed, some parties, which the author refers to as ethnopopulist parties, have won votes from diverse ethnic constituencies by moderating their discourse, forming cross-ethnic alliances, and formulating a broad populist appeal. This article focuses on the most successful ethnopopulist party to date, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in Bolivia. It shows how the MAS used an inclusive ethnic appeal and classical populist strategies to fuse traditional populist constituencies—politically disenchanted urban mestizos with nationalist and statist views—to its rural, largely indigenous base. The article also examines the extent to which these arguments can account for the varying performance of other parties in the region.

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World Politics , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , April 2008 , pp. 475 - 508
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2 In social science parlance, the dependent variable of this study is the performance of ethnically based parties in Latin America.

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29 Conciencia de Patria (CONDEPA) formulated a somewhat successful ethnopopulist appeal in the 1990s, but CONDEPA, like the Katarista parties, never developed a following or an organizational base outside of Aymara areas. Moreover, the party, like the traditional parties, was led by mestizos, and that ultimately undermined its appeal in indigenous areas. It fell apart in the wake of leadership disputes caused by the death of its charismatic founder, Carlos Palenque.

30 These parties have frequently been referred to as Indianista parties.

31 Quispe has frequently denounced whites, saying, for example, that “they want to bathe themselves in indigenous blood”; author interview with Felipe Quispe, La Paz, July 29, 2004.

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37 The MAS also forged alliances with indigenous groups in the Amazon. For example, it struck an alliance with the Coordinadora de Pueblos Etnicos de Santa Cruz (CPESC) and allowed it to help select candidates in the department of Santa Cruz in 2002. See Van Cott (fn. 4, 2005), 91.

38 Author interview with Dionisio Nunez, La Paz, July 21, 2004.

39 Author interview with Ricardo Diaz, La Paz, August 17,2007.

40 In Bolivia, senators, prefects, and 60 of the 130 deputies are elected at the departmental level. The remaining 70 deputies are elected from uninominal districts.

41 Author interview with Leonilda Zurita, La Paz, August 20,2007; author interview with Ricardo Diaz (fn. 39).

42 The MAS has eschewed alliances with the traditional parties, however, on the grounds that those sorts of alliances might compromise its autonomy or political project.

43 According to the 2006 LAPOP survey, the MAS also substantially increased its share of the urban vote, winning the support of almost half of urban voters in 2005, as opposed to less than 20 percent in 2002.

44 According to the 2006 LAPOP survey, whites represented 7 percent of the MAS'S total vote in 2005, although this represented an increase from only 3 percent in 2002. By contrast, self-identified indigenous people represented 28 percent of the MAS'S total vote in 2005, down slightly from 33 percent in 2002.

45 Author interview with Lino Villca, La Paz, August 15, 2007.

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56 The survey asked people to place themselves on a left-right scale of 1–10. Here, I classify people who place themselves at 1–4 as leftists, 5–6 as centrists, and 7–10 as rightists. In the 2006 LAPOP survey, 31 percent of the people who answered this question identified themselves as being on the left, 46.5 percent on the center, and 22.5 percent on the right. However, a significant percentage of the interviewees (24.5 percent) failed to respond.

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58 According to the 2006 LAPOP survey, 62 percent of people who self-identified as being on the left strongly approved (8–10 on a 10 point scale) of the nationalization of the gas industry, as did 60 percent of centrists and/or rightists.

59 Ethnic ties also help explain why many people on the center and the right supported the MAS. According to the 2006 LAPOP survey, 61.4 percent of centrists and 56.8 percent of rightists who grew up speaking an indigenous language supported the MAS in 2005, as opposed to only 30.0 percent of those centrists and 14.3 percent of those rightists who did not grow up speaking an indigenous language.

60 Dow and Endersby argue that multinomial logit is superior in some aspects to multinomial probit, particularly for applications such as this, where “a voter casts a ballot for a candidate or party selected from a fixed, stable pool of alternatives”; see Dow, Jay K. and Endersby, James W., “Multi-nomial Probit and Multinomial Logit: A Comparison of Choice Models for Voting Research,” Electoral Studies 23 (March 2004), 108CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For a contrasting view, see Alvarez, Michael R. and Nagler, Jonathan, “When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multiparty Competition,” American Journal of Political Science 42 (January 1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

61 None of the six other parties that competed in this election earned more than 7 percent of the vote.

62 For more information on the survey and the wording of the questions, see Seligson et al. (fn. 27, 2006).

63 In the 2006 LAPOP survey, 53 percent of voters reported casting their ballots for the MAS and 25 percent reported voting for PODEMOS. According to the official returns, the MAS received 50 percent of the total vote and PODEMOS earned 26 percent.

64 There is little evidence to suggest that the increase in votes for the MAS in 2005 is due to increased voter turnout. Voter turnout as a percentage of the estimated voting-age population actually declined between 2002 and 2005, both nationwide and in majority indigenous provinces. This decline in turnout was largely a result of the purging of the voter rolls as required by a change in Bolivian electoral laws. Data on turnout are from Corte Nacional Electoral (CNE), Resultados Elecciones Generatesy de Prefectos 2005 (La Paz: CNE, 2006).

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66 According to the 2002 I.APOP survey, MAS supporters in 2002 were more likely to express low levels of confidence in parties, presumably because in 2002 MAS had not yet established itself as one of the country's main parties. In 2002, 38.8 percent of MAS supporters reported having no trust in parties, as opposed to 29.2 percent of all voters.

67 The modest level of statistical significance of the indigenous identification variable is presumably the result of the fact that indigenous self-identification is correlated with other variables in the analysis, such as the Aymara and Quechua linguistic variables. The vast majority (84 percent) of people who self-identify as indigenous grew up speaking an indigenous language.

68 As the figure shows, the 95 percent confidence intervals of the estimates for self-identified indigenous people overlap with those of mestizos, so we do not have a high level of certainty that someone who self-identifies as indigenous is more likely to vote for the MAS than is someone who self-identifies as mestizo.

69 Speakers of lowlands indigenous languages may not have been significantly more likely to vote for the MAS because it may have been perceived as a party that principally represented highlands indigenous populations, reflecting ongoing Amazonian-highlands indigenous divides.

70 I view growing up speaking an indigenous language as a reasonable proxy for having indigenous roots and the cultural attachments and life experiences that go with them. It is these cultural attachments and life experiences, I assume, that draw indigenous language speakers to the MAS.

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73 It is true that some populist and leftist parties, such as Izquierda Democratica in Ecuador, Izqui-erda Unida in Peru, and the Union Democratica y Popular in Bolivia, have won significant levels of support among rural, indigenous voters in the past, but they have not captured this constituency to the same degree as the ethnopopulist parties. In Bolivia, only the MNR of the 1950s and 1960s rivaled the MAS in terms of its share of the vote among the rural, indigenous population.

74 Weyland (fn. 8), 13.

75 Ibid.; Conniff (fn. 8), 20; Drake (fn. 8); Kaufman, Robert R. and Stallings, Barbara, “The Political Economy of Latin American Populism,” in Dornbusch, Rudiger and Edwards, Sebastian, eds., The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)Google Scholar.

76 The stability of ethnic ties should not be exaggerated, however, particularly in regions such as Latin America, where ethnic identification is fluid. As the Ecuadorian case illustrates, indigenous voters may abandon an indigenous-based party for other parties if its appeals become exclusionary or if they believe that other populist or leftist parties have better electoral possibilities.

77 Bartolini, Stefano and Mair, Peter, Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisa-tion of European Electorates 1885–1985 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)Google Scholar; and Jóhanna Kristin Birnir (fn. 4, 2001). In an earlier study, I found that indigenous areas in Latin America have traditionally been more electorally volatile than nonindigenous areas, but I argued that this volatility stemmed from the failure of existing parties to represent the indigenous population adequately. Indeed, the emergence of indigenous-based parties has reduced electoral volatility to date. See Madüd, Raul, “Ethnic Cleavages and Electoral Volatility in Latin America,” Comparative Politics 38 (October 2005)Google Scholar.

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79 Some scholars have claimed the indigenous population in Ecuador represents 30 percent or more of the population, but the 2001 census found that only 6.1- percent of the population self-identified as indigenous and only 4.6 percent reported speaking an indigenous language. The 2000 EMEDINHO survey found tha t 14.3 percent of the population either self-identified as indigenous, spoke an indigenous language, or had parents who spoke an indigenous language. See Mauricio León Guzmán, “Etnicidad y exclusión en el Ecuador: Una mirada a partir del Censo de Población de 2001,” Iconos (February 2003).

80 Van Cott (fn. 4, 2005); and Marenghi and Alcántara (fn. 5).

81 Van Cott (fn. 4, 2005).

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83 See Yashar (fn. 3) for an illuminating analysis of why Peru has failed to develop a strong indigenous movement.

84 Andolina (fn. 5); and Collins (fn. 4).

85 Mijeski and Beck (fn. 6); Beck and Mijeski (fn. 6); and Madrid (fn. 78). 86 “Pachakutik Pierde su Fuerza Urbana.” El Comercio, December 14, 2005, www.elcomercio.com/solo_texto_search.asp?id_noticia=9962&anio=2005&mes=12&dia=14 (accessed August 5, 2007); “Pachakutik se Requesbraja por el Indigenismo,” El Comercio, December 15, 2005, www.elcomer-rio.com/solo_texto_search.asp?id_noticia=10072&anio=2005&rnes=125cdia=15 (accessed August 5, 2007).

87 Scott H. Beck and Kenneth J. Mijeski, “How to Lose by Winning: The Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement after the 2002 Elections” (Paper presented at the international congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15–18), 17; “La desintegracion de Pachakutik continua.” El Comercio, December 23,2005, www.elcomercio.com/solo_texto_search.asp?id_noticia=l 0889&anio=2005&mes=12&dia=23 (accessed August 5,2007).

88 Pachakutik fared even worse in the September 2007 elections for the constituent assembly, winning less than 1 percent of the national vote.

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