Argentina's Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period (1983–2023)

Processes, Actors and Issues

Gisela Pereyra Doval, Gastón Souroujon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032396569
• eBook ISBN: 9781003811169
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Argentina's Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period provides a comprehensive analysis of the course of right-wing politics in the country in the last 40 years.

In 1983, after the fall of a violent military regime, Argentina began the longest period of democratic stability in its history—40 years marked by economic, institutional, social and political crises. This book examines the trajectory of the different right-wing organisations and ideological developments during these years, seeking to understand both the distinctions and the continuities that lie beneath its metamorphoses. Argentina has always acted as a laboratory in which to appreciate how the major problems and questions that concern those who have studied the right-wing in recent decades are translated into a particular political culture. In an international scenario marked by the social and political growth of different right-wing movements, some of which pose a threat to liberal democracies, the study of the Argentine case can provide greater clarity and a different perspective on problems that transcend this specific national case.

This book will be of interest to scholars of Argentinian and Latin American politics and history, as well as specialists on the comparative politics of the radical right.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Kaleidoscope of Argentine Right-Wing Politics
• 1 Cold War, Peronism and Anti-Communism in Argentina (1943–1983)
• 2 The Configuration of the Right-Wing World During the Last Civic-Military Dictatorship in Argentina
• 3 Political Right-Wing and Democracy
• 4 When Peronism Met the New Right. The Menem Administration (1989–1999): Between Neoliberalism and Neopopulism
• 5 Everything Solid Vanishes in the Air: The Rise to Power of Cambiemos in Argentina
• 6 Democracy, Authoritarianism and Conservative Power in Provincial Territories: Asynchronies, Tensions and Articulations in a Federal State
• 7 Republic and Right-Wing Politics in Argentina. Republican Traditions and Democracy: From UCEDÉ to PRO
• 8 Conceptual Configuration of the Rights in the Role of the Armed Forces During Argentina’s Democracy: Oscillations, Connections and Challenges
• 9 Right-Wing Political Parties in Argentina (1983–2022)
• 10 Gaining Light From the Shadows: Economic Elites and the Right-Wing in Argentina in the Last Democratic Era
• 11 The Constitution of Right-Wing Collective Action Repertoire in Democratic Argentina
• 12 Forking Paths? Right-Wing Intellectuals After the Democratic Restoration
• 13 The Catholic World in the Face of Democracy
• 14 Modulations of the Right-Wing Faced to Feminism: Reactions, Nuances and Discursive Radicalisation
• 15 A “Right-Wing” Media System? Structure, Concentration and Polarisation in Argentine Media Between 1983 and 2023
• 16 “Change Is to the Right”: Youth Participation and “New Right-Wing Formations” in the 2018–2021 Cycle
• 17 Of Patriots and Globalists: The Right’s Influence on Argentina-United States Relations
• 18 Views on Latin American Regionalism and Argentine Insertion in the Regional Landscape: A Typology of the Argentine Political Right
• 19 Argentina’s New Right-Wing and Bilateral Regional Ties: Building an External Agenda in a Debate Between Ideas and Pragmatism
• Epilogue: Right-Wing Actors, Ideas and Historical Conditions in the Democratisation Waves in Argentina and the Southern Cone. A Comparative Perspective
• Index