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New Rightists or Simply Opportunists? The New Right Parties in Power in Latin America and Europe between 2010 and 2019: An Analysis of Their Ideological Dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

Alejandra López Aguilar  and
Juan Federico Pino Uribe Open the ORCID record for Juan Federico Pino Uribe [Opens in a new window]
Alejandra López Aguilar
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Juan Federico Pino Uribe*
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Flacso Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Corresponding author: Juan Federico Pino Uribe, email: jfpinofl@flacso.edu.ec
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Abstract

There is a boom in the power of right-wing parties that are becoming government parties in Latin America and Europe. It has been pointed out that these are distinguished from traditional right-wing parties by their common ideology that transcends national contexts, which is why they have been grouped as New Right-wing parties. This article questions whether these parties share ideological themes or whether they are heterogeneous and obey national interests. This study systemizes the New Right-wing parties’ programs and classifies them to answer the question. This corpus is then studied through frequency, network, and principal component analysis. Two conclusions are reached from this. First, these parties agree on issues such as provider States and nationalist claims, and, second, their programs have diverse themes that do not show the formation of an identifiable transnational ideological agenda in their programs. Consequently, grouping these parties as an ideologically homogeneous phenomenon can make invisible the fact that they are parties that adjust to particular demands of their political environment, in a logic that obeys more catch-all parties than ideological and dogmatic parties.

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ideologypartiesparty programsNew Rights
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , May 2024 , pp. 602 - 618
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