Frente Amplio and the Crafting of a Social Democratic Alternative in Uruguay

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ID2977019
AuthorsJuan Pablo Luna (0000-0001-7597-203X, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume49
Issue04
Pages1-30
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-2456.2007.tb00390.x
OpenAlexW2042605343
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited11

This study of Uruguay's Frente Amplio explores four central questions for the analysis of the "new Latin American left." How did a leftist alternative emerge and grow inside an institutionalized party system? How do the socioeconomic and political factors that enabled the rise of the left in Uruguay differ from those observed in other Latin American cases? How did Frente Amplio adapt itself to profit from the opportunities that arose during the 1990s? What are the implications of the previous factors for governmental action by the FA? In answering these questions, this study integrates an analysis of the sociological and political-institutional opportunity structures consolidated during the 1990s with one of strategic partisan adaptation processes. This perspective is useful for explaining how, by 2004, Frente Amplio had built a dual support base from its historical constituency and a socially heterogeneous group alienated from traditional parties due to economic and political discontent

Democracy · Latin Americans · Left-wing politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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