TY - BOOK AU - Loxton,James TI - Conservative party-building in Latin America: authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197537558 (ebook) : AV - JL969.A45 U1 - 324.2804 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Conservatives KW - Latin America KW - Political parties KW - Politics and government KW - 1980- N1 - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Where do strong conservative parties come from? While there is a growing scholarly awareness about the importance of such parties for democratic stability, much less is known about their origins. In this groundbreaking book, James Loxton takes up this question by examining new conservative parties formed in Latin America between 1978 and 2010. The most successful cases, he finds, shared a surprising characteristic: they had deep roots in former dictatorships. Through a comparative analysis of failed and successful cases in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, and Guatemala, Loxton argues that this was not a coincidence UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197537527.001.0001 ER -