Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America
The Peruvian Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6410173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth M Roberts (0000-0001-6325-6351, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 82-116 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wp.1995.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2161004757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 313 |
| References cited | 31 |
Latin American populism is generally associated with the developmental stage of import substitution industrialization; it is thus widely presumed to have been eclipsed by the debt crisis of the 1980s and the free market reforms of the neoliberal era. However, the leadership of Alberto Fujimori in Peru suggests that new forms of populism may be emerging despite the fiscal constraints of neoliberal austerity. This new variant of populism thrives in a context where economic crisis and social dislocation undermine traditional representative institutions, enabling personalist leaders to establish unmediated relationships with heterogeneous, atomized masses. Political support can be cultivated through populist attacks on entrenched political elites or institutions, along with targeted but highly visible poverty alleviation programs. This new form of populist autocracy complements the efforts of neoliberal technocrats to circumvent the representative institutions that are integral to democratic accountability. The Peruvian case thus demonstrates that populism has been transformed rather than eclipsed during the neoliberal era and that it should be decoupled theoretically from any particular phase or model of economic development
Austerity · Autocracy · Context (archaeology · Debt · Debt crisis · Democracy · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Latin Americans · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Technocracy · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Human rights and populist wrongs
Socio-Partisan Activism
The Societal Consequences of Market Reform in Peru
Democracy without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru
El populismo, entre religión y política. Sobre las raíces históricas del antiliberalismo
Por qué los populismos latinoamericanos se niegan a desaparecer
Pugna de Poderes y Crisis de Gobernabilidad
Quien habla es terrorista
Dependent Civil Society
Populism and Hegemony
Populism and Its Causes
Populism in Africa
Populism
International Organization As Technocratic Utopia
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
Everywhere Taksim
When the People Rule
Public Administration and the Illiberal Challenge
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America
Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America
Party System Institutionalization and Party System Theory After the Third Wave of Democratization
Latin America's Populist Revival
Measuring populist discourse with semantic text analysis
Populist Leaders and the Economy
The antipolitics of good governance
Human Capital versus Basic Income
The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
Inequality, Democracy, and the Inclusionary Turn in Latin America
Saga do populismo
La derecha peruana de encomenderos a neoliberales, pero siempre encomenderos
Protegendo a democracia do povo
Support for populist candidates predicted by declining social capital and an increase in suicides
Populismo e Autoritarismo – Uma breve reflexão teórica
En finir avec le populisme
Effect of crises on charisma signaling
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models
Ideas or Strategy? The Impact of Populist Incumbents on Liberal Democracy
Change in political party strategy and organization in Turkey
The Justice and Development Party in Turkey
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
Cambios en los vínculos entre la sociedad y el Estado en el Perú, 1968-2008
Imagining the Peoples of Europe
The Politics of Popular Coalitions
Populist strategy revisited
Reconfiguración conservadora, trazas del pasado y anti populismo en Argentina. Milei como nueva ley
Populismo(s), una lectura plural y compleja del concepto infame
El populismo como concepto en América Latina y en Colombia
Television and Neopopulism in Latin America
Defining the Left in Latin America
Vote Buying in Argentina
El tecnopopulismo de Rafael Correa
Who Votes for chavismo
Changing Faces of Populism in Latin America
From Labor Politics to Machine Politics
The Ideational Approach to Populism
Presidentialism, Elections and Representation
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Latin America
Opportunistic Government or Sustaining Reform? Electoral Trends and Public-Expenditure Patterns in Peru, 1990-1995
Effects of Liberalization Programs on Poverty and Inequality
Psychological Causes of Corruption
Capitalism without Capital
A Loosening Grip
Cultural Professions in Modern-Day Russia
Alien Elections
Populisme, réformes libérales et institutions démocratiques en Argentine (1989-1999)
Populisme et néopopulisme en Argentine
Medios, representación y calidad de la democracia en América Latina
Izquierda y estabilidad de la democracia en América latina
Los ejes de la tercera vía en América Latina
Presidentes outsiders y ministros neófitos
Is “Penal Populism” Really Populist? Evaluating Penal Legislation in Post-redemocratization Brazil
Neopopulismo, poder y control social
Amlo’s populism in Mexico and the framing of the extractivist agenda
El Movimiento Bolivariano en Venezuela
Capacity-Building
Populism in Venezuela
Populist liberalism as dominant ideology
Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration
How’s Life After the Collapse? Populism as a Representation Linkage and the Emergence of a Populist/Anti-Populist Political Divide in Italy (1994–2018)
Avoiding Bias in the Study of Populism
Thaksin the Populist
Decoding populism’s ambiguity and causal complexity
How populist are populist parties in France? Understanding parties’ strategies within a systemic approach
Neoliberalism, welfare, and mass male circumcisions in Turkey
How do populists make decisions? The Five Star Movement and the Lega in local government during the ‘refugee crisis’
Populism in the XXI Century in Brazil
Populism versus Technocracy? Populist Responses to the Technocratic Nature of the EU
Expert Ministers in New Democracies
Populists and Technocrats in Latin America
Pluralismo territorial, gobernanza neoliberal y resistencia
Re-Constructing “Populism” as a Signifier of the Changing Meanings of the Political World
The Pacification of Peru and the Production of a Neoliberal Populist Order
Varieties of populism and the challenges to Global Constitutionalism
Six months of Javier Milei
Manufacturing Poverty
Re-thinking Violence, Everyday and (In)Security
Política y sociedad en una época de transición
Squatters and oligarchs
Capitalist development and democracy
The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America
Politician’s Dilemma
The Great Transformation
Capitalist Development and Democracy
The Logic of Collective Action
Peruvian Economic Policy in the 1980s
State Reform, Coalitions, and The Neoliberal Autogolpe in Peru
Neoliberal Economic Policies and the Potential for Electoral Change in Mexico
Presidential succession, economic crisis, and populist resurgence in Brazil
Latin American Populism
Politica y Sociedad en una Epoca de Transicion. De la Sociedad Tradicional a la Sociedad de Masas
Dependency and development in Latin America
The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship
Delegative Democracy
The Politics of Peruvian Economic Reform
Latin American Populism in Comparative Perspective
El regreso del líder
Unity and Diversity in Latin American History
Conceptual "Stretching" Revisited
The Heart That Bleeds
Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
On the Concept of Populism
| Unique citing works | 313 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,43 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 304 |