Conservative party-building in Latin America : authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle / James Loxton.
| Author/creator |
Loxton, James |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xxi, 279 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science |
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| Contents | Introduction : the puzzle of authoritarian origins and democratic success -- A theory of conservative party-building -- UDI : from military dictatorship to party-building in Chile -- UCEDE : Argentina's long-sought mass conservative party? -- ARENA : death squads and democratic success in El Salvador -- PAN : making sense of a political suicide in Guatemala -- Other attempts at conservative party-building in Latin America -- Conclusion : party-building, authoritarian successor parties, and democracy. |
| Abstract | "On September 11, 1990, a delegation of leaders from the Unión Demócrata Independiente (Independent Democratic Union, UDI) presented former dictator Augusto Pinochet with a letter of gratitude.1 The letter thanked him for his "liberating military action" on this date 17 years earlier against the leftist government of Salvador Allende, praising it as one of the military's "most unequaled glories." It was the culmination of a series of public events organized by the party to celebrate the 1973 coup, including mass rallies and the presentation of similar letters to other former junta members. For a country that just six months earlier had emerged from a dictatorship that killed, tortured, and exiled thousands of its own citizens, this was a provocative gesture. In the context of democracy, one might expect that a party willing to make such a gesture would not have much of a political future. Such an expectation, however, would be wrong: by 2001, the UDI had grown into the most- voted- for party in the country- a position that it would hold in every subsequent legislative election (except in 2017, when it came in second)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021933381 |
| ISBN | 9780197537527 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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