Latin America's pendular politics : electoral cycles and alternations / Olivier Dabène, editor.

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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies of the Americas.
Other Authors: Dabène, Olivier (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
Series:Studies of the Americas.
Subjects:
Right and left (Political science) > Latin America.
Latin America > Politics and government > 20th century.
Latin America > Politics and government > 21st century.
Political parties > Latin America.
Amérique latine > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
Amérique latine > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siècle.
Political parties.
Politics and government.
Right and left (Political science)
Latin America.
1900-2099
Physical Description:xxi, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Electoral cycles, continuity, and change in Latin American politics: A framework for analysis / Olivier Dabène
  • Part I: Conservative alternations
  • New political cycle in Chile: From centrist consensus to the struggle for cultural hegemony / Oliver Dabène, Stéphanie Alenda, and Javiera Arce-Riffo
  • Step right or step ahead? Explaining the 2019 presidential swing in Uruguay / Olivier Dabène and Luis Rivera-Vélez
  • Radicalizing alternation: Political change and degraded democracy in El Salvador (2019-2021) / Olivier Dabène and Kevin Parthenay
  • Guatemala, and alternation in continuity / Olivier Dabène and Erica Guevara
  • The return of the divided rights: Alternations in Peru / Olivier Dabène and Gustavo Pastor
  • Part II: Progressist alternations
  • Polarization, depolarization, and (re)polarization: The 2019 electoral process and a new alternation in Argentine democracy / Olivier Dabène and Dario Rodríguez
  • Mexico's 2018 Tsunami-Alternaion: Change and continuities following the collapse of the transitional three-party system / Olivier Dabène and Willibald Sonnleitner
  • Panama: Alternation inside the box / Olivier Dabène, Claire Nevache, Sophie Wintgens, and Harry Brown-Araúz
  • Part III: Conservative alternations following a destitution
  • Brazil 2016-2018: A double political alternation / Olivier Dabène, Margaux De Barros, Kevin Kermoal, and Frédéric Louault
  • The 2019 elections in Bolivia / Olivier Dabène and Sebastian Urioste
  • Part IV: Partial alternations
  • Colombia: The country where peace allowed political alternatino / Olivier Dabène and Luisa Cajamarca
  • Paraguay 2018. A country of electoral "intralternation"? / Olivier Dabène and Damien Larrouqué
  • Costa Rica's 2018 and 2020 elections: A partial alternation and a conservative turn / Olivier Dabène and Erica Guevara
  • Part V: Electoral authoritarianism
  • The Sandinista Order: Changes in voting procedures and authoritarianism in Nicaragua / Olivier Dabène and Maya Collombon
  • The authoritarian and conservative turn of Nicolá Maduro
  • From competitive authoritarianism to state capture: A contested re-election in Honduras (2017) / Olivier Dabène and Kevin Parthenay.