Friend or foe? When political elites evaluate foreign leaders

Bibliographic Data

ID3062286
AuthorsJosé Manuel Rivas (0000-0002-5115-8022, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano), Asbel Bohigues (0000-0002-9875-7743, Universitat de València)
Year2022
Volume37
Issue109
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-6909 • E-ISSN: 1806-9053
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/3710904/2022
OpenAlexW4312891663
SCIELO_PIDS0102-69092022000200509
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited46

Leaders are themselves key actors in international relations; in recent years, Hugo Chávez and Pope Francis have had an expressive impact beyond their respective traditional influence areas. Why do such leaders display this kind of popularity? More importantly, how do political elites perceive them? This paper aims to identify, employing evidence from eighteen Latin American parliaments, what drives political elite evaluations of a variety of notorious leaders in the last decade. To determine which factors are behind their evaluations, we rely on a friend-foe approach of politics, as measured by the ideological distance between the legislator her/himself and the leader. The results point that this friend-foe logic is the main predictor when it comes to the evaluation of elites by elites in the international arena

Elite · Ideology · International relations · Latin Americans · Legislator · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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