ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

The Kaleidoscope of Argentine Right-Wing Politics 1

chapter 4|17 pages

When Peronism Met the New Right. The Menem Administration (1989–1999)

Between Neoliberalism and Neopopulism 1

chapter 5|16 pages

Everything Solid Vanishes in the Air

The Rise to Power of Cambiemos in Argentina

chapter 6|17 pages

Democracy, Authoritarianism and Conservative Power in Provincial Territories

Asynchronies, Tensions and Articulations in a Federal State 1

chapter 10|16 pages

Gaining Light From the Shadows

Economic Elites and the Right-Wing in Argentina in the Last Democratic Era

chapter 14|17 pages

Modulations of the Right-Wing Faced to Feminism

Reactions, Nuances and Discursive Radicalisation

chapter 16|17 pages

“Change Is to the Right”

Youth Participation and “New Right-Wing Formations” in the 2018–2021 Cycle 1

chapter 17|17 pages

Of Patriots and Globalists

The Right's Influence on Argentina-United States Relations

chapter 19|16 pages

Argentina's New Right-Wing and Bilateral Regional Ties

Building an External Agenda in a Debate Between Ideas and Pragmatism

chapter |13 pages

Epilogue

Right-Wing Actors, Ideas and Historical Conditions in the Democratisation Waves in Argentina and the Southern Cone. A Comparative Perspective