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The New Populism, Presidentialism and Market‐Orientated Reform in Spanish South America

Part of: Populism In Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

George Philip
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A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT SOUTH AMERICAN POLITICS has been the re-emergence of populism. More interesting still has been the unexpected combination – in some countries – of traditional populist appeals (successfully made), the determined application of free market policies, and the successful re-election of the market-reforming populists. This does not mean that populist politicians can succeed to order. Many populist candidates have sought election and only a few have secured it. Of those elected as (essentially) independent candidates, only some have succeeded. Presidents Bucaram in Ecuador and Collor in Brazil were removed from office by Congress and subjected to legal proceedings for corruption. However, where populists have succeeded, they have done so on a far more impressive scale than most people originally predicted.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 81 - 97
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