Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74050 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 41.2007
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the ‘90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin America, considering as main actors the two Presidents who have best embodied this ideal: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, (Mexico 1988-1994) and Carlos Menem (Argentina 1989-1999). Neopopulism is based on an economic project, the neoliberal policy based on cuts in the welfare, which seems very far from the populist positions of the past. Populism revives through the charisma of these Presidents, bypassing institutional or organisational forms of mediation between the leader and the masses. The development of selected social policies has gained strong political support from the lower classes, including extensive institutional reforms.
Subjects: 
Latin America
Mexico
Argentina
’90s
Populism
Neopopulism
JEL: 
I38
J88
N16
N26
N36
N46
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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