Conservatives against the Tide
The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective

This Elements proposes an explanatory scheme on the rise to power of a new right in Latin America.

Gabriel Vommaro (Author)

9781009418249, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 July 2023

75 pages
27 x 18 x 0.7 cm, 0.15 kg

This volume in the Elements series addresses the success of conservative parties in non-authoritarian contexts in contemporary Latin America. It places the core case of Argentina's Republican Proposal (PRO) party in comparative perspective with Argentina's Recrear and with Colombia's Democratic Center (CD) party and the Bolivia's Social Democratic Movement (MDS) in an effort to understand their differing degrees of success in adverse circumstances. Based on long-term research using a variety of methods, this Element shows that success has been driven by three factors: programmatic innovation by personalistic leaders; organizational mobilization of both core and noncore constituencies; and elite fear of the 'Venezuela model.'

Introduction
1. Research design and theoretical approach
2. The challenges of Latin American conservative parties in recent history
3. The programmatic renewal of the conservative parties in adverse times
4. The construction of new organizational mechanisms for party mobilization
5. Political mobilization of conservative parties based on 'moral panic' and fear of the 'Venezuela model
6. The interaction between the three factors
7. The PRO in comparative perspective. Recrear, the child of 2001 that could not grow up
8. Conclusions
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Constitution: government & the state [JPHC]