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Conservative Party-Building in Latin America - Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle (Hardcover)
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Conservative Party-Building in Latin America - Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle (Hardcover)
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Where do strong conservative parties come from? While there is a
growing scholarly awareness about the importance of such parties
for democratic stability, much less is known about their origins.
In this groundbreaking book, James Loxton takes up this question by
examining new conservative parties formed in Latin America between
1978 and 2010. The most successful cases, he finds, shared a
surprising characteristic: they had deep roots in former
dictatorships. Through a comparative analysis of failed and
successful cases in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, and Guatemala,
Loxton argues that this was not a coincidence. The successes
inherited a range of resources from outgoing authoritarian regimes
that, paradoxically, gave them an advantage in democratic
competition. He also highlights the role of intense
counterrevolutionary struggle as a source of party cohesion. In
addition to making an empirical contribution to the study of the
Latin American right and a theoretical contribution to the study of
party-building, Loxton advances our understanding of the worldwide
phenomenon of "authoritarian successor parties"-parties that emerge
from authoritarian regimes but that operate after a transition to
democracy. A major work, Conservative Party-Building in Latin
America will reshape our understanding of politics in contemporary
Latin America and the realities of democratic transitions
everywhere.
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