Juan Pablo Luna
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199642649
- eISBN:
- 9780191778643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199642649.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Chapter 7 analyzes the external validity of the argument by using a large-N cross-national analysis combining fuzzy-set analyses with simple econometric models. The descriptive and explanatory ...
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Chapter 7 analyzes the external validity of the argument by using a large-N cross-national analysis combining fuzzy-set analyses with simple econometric models. The descriptive and explanatory framework is extended to four comparative vignettes, testing the framework’s suitability for cases lacking the structural and historical conditions found in Chile and Uruguay. This exercise complements the most-similar systems design applied in the book with a most-different systems exploration, analyzing the segmentation of electoral appeals in the following cases: the PT(Brazil), the MAS in Bolivia, ARENA in El Salvador, and the BJP in India. In addition to permitting the testing of specific propositions identified in Chapter 6, the four shadow cases also support a crucial causal claim made in the book: in unequal societies, parties can prosper by simultaneously segmenting and strategically harmonizing diversified appeals to socially distinct constituencies.Less
Chapter 7 analyzes the external validity of the argument by using a large-N cross-national analysis combining fuzzy-set analyses with simple econometric models. The descriptive and explanatory framework is extended to four comparative vignettes, testing the framework’s suitability for cases lacking the structural and historical conditions found in Chile and Uruguay. This exercise complements the most-similar systems design applied in the book with a most-different systems exploration, analyzing the segmentation of electoral appeals in the following cases: the PT(Brazil), the MAS in Bolivia, ARENA in El Salvador, and the BJP in India. In addition to permitting the testing of specific propositions identified in Chapter 6, the four shadow cases also support a crucial causal claim made in the book: in unequal societies, parties can prosper by simultaneously segmenting and strategically harmonizing diversified appeals to socially distinct constituencies.
James Loxton
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- June 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197537527
- eISBN:
- 9780197537558
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197537527.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter examines ARENA in El Salvador and argues that, like the UDI in Chile, its success was the product of authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle. The first section ...
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This chapter examines ARENA in El Salvador and argues that, like the UDI in Chile, its success was the product of authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle. The first section discusses El Salvador’s long history of right-wing military rule. The second section examines the October 1979 coup and the resulting establishment of a left-wing Revolutionary Governing Junta. The third section discusses the intense counterrevolutionary response that the junta triggered. This included large-scale death squad violence, with future ARENA founder Roberto D’Aubuisson playing a key role. The fourth section examines the formation of ARENA in response to an impending transition to competitive elections. The fifth section shows how D’Aubuisson’s role as a high-level official in the pre-1979 military regime endowed ARENA with several valuable resources. The final section discusses how ARENA’s origins in counterrevolutionary struggle served as a powerful source of cohesion.Less
This chapter examines ARENA in El Salvador and argues that, like the UDI in Chile, its success was the product of authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle. The first section discusses El Salvador’s long history of right-wing military rule. The second section examines the October 1979 coup and the resulting establishment of a left-wing Revolutionary Governing Junta. The third section discusses the intense counterrevolutionary response that the junta triggered. This included large-scale death squad violence, with future ARENA founder Roberto D’Aubuisson playing a key role. The fourth section examines the formation of ARENA in response to an impending transition to competitive elections. The fifth section shows how D’Aubuisson’s role as a high-level official in the pre-1979 military regime endowed ARENA with several valuable resources. The final section discusses how ARENA’s origins in counterrevolutionary struggle served as a powerful source of cohesion.
