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Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Dec 2013

Abstract

Left and right (or liberal and conservative) are widely used concepts for analyzing parties and other political objects, but they have at least two problems. First, it is unclear whether they are useful outside rich democracies. Second, they are not defined in a single way; there are two broad approaches. On one side an historical-analytical tradition, and on the other side, an approach based on spatial theories of party competition. This article: a) compares two classifications of Latin American political parties on the left-right scale according to those approaches, finding that they are very different; b) suggests a plausible explanation for those differences based on systematic patterns found in the data, explanation which leads to several testable hypotheses, and c) shows that, available evidence and current literature support those hypotheses, hence the explanation itself.

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Title
IZQUIERDA Y DERECHA: FORMAS DE DEFINIRLAS, EL CASO LATINOAMERICANO Y SUS IMPLICACIONES/Left and right: way to define them, Latin American case and their implications
Author
Ferrer, Luis Eduardo González; Velasco, Rosario Queirolo
Pages
79-105
Publication year
2013
Publication date
Dec 2013
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
11302887
e-ISSN
11302895
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1499908618
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Dec 2013