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Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America

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Under what conditions do political institutions develop which might be able to promoting economic and social elites’ accommodation to democracy? The importance of this question for research on regime change and democracy in Latin The us lies in two established political facts: alliances between upper-class groups and the armed forces have historically been an incredible cause of military intervention in the region, and countries with electorally viable national conservative parties have experienced significantly longer periods of democratic governance for the reason that 1920s and 1930s than have countries with weak conservative parties.

The contributors to this book examine the relationship between the Right and democracy in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Peru, and Venezuela all over the 1980s and 1990s. The authors center of attention particularly at the challenges that democratization may pose to upper-class groups; the political role of conservative parties and their electoral performance all over these two an important decades; and the relationships among conservative party strength or weakness, different modes of elite interest representation, and economic and social elites’ make stronger for political democracy. The volume includes a statistical appendix with data on conservative parties’ electoral performance in national elections all over the 1980s and 1990s in these seven countries.

Contributors: Atilio A. Borón, Universidad de Buenos Aires • Catherine M. Conaghan, Queen’s University • Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame • John C. Dugas, Kalamazoo College • Manuel Antonio Garretón, Universidad de Chile • Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame • Rachel Meneguello, Universidade de Campinas • Kevin J. Middlebrook, University of California, San Diego • Timothy J. Power, Florida International University • Elisabeth J. Wood, New York University.

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