Business, Economic Experts, and Conservative Party Building in Latin America: The Case of El Salvador

Author:

Koivumaeki Riitta-Ilona1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin.

Abstract

A wave of leftist governments has swept Latin America in recent years, attracting a great deal of scholarly attention. Yet a number of new conservative parties have attained considerable electoral success, as well. This paper argues that a conservative party can succeed electorally and consolidate organizationally when it is supported by two strong groups in society: the business community and the neoliberal technocrats. To assess the argument, I explore the successful trajectory of the rightist Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) in El Salvador. I then evaluate the generalizability of the argument by comparing ARENA's trajectory with another conservative party in the region, Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) in Chile. In addition to proposing a new theory for conservative party success in Latin America, the paper calls for the revival of socioeconomic explanations in political science.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science

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