POLS 174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nonpartisanism
23 Dec 2019
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Right can be defined in terms of ideology, policy positions or sociology. Right and left are a metaphor from the french revolution. Ideological definition uses the word conservative, desire to maintain the status quo. Marginal elites in latin america had fathers who were elite but mothers who were mistresses. Sociological definitions rely on the base of the party: rightist parties draw constituencies from the upper strata of society. Complicated because to win rightist parties have to appeal to other interests, so who the core constituency is, is questionable. Traditional rightist parties provide programmatic representation to the upper classes but bribe the rural poor for their votes (1) as demand for higher bribes goes up, the ability of the right to do this goes down. Appeals to the downwardly mobile middle-class using nationalistic, racist and/or nativist rhetoric (less common in latin america than the us)
