The Right in the Americas

Julián Castro-Rea is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

The Right in the Americas discusses the origins, development and current state of conservative and right-wing movements in ten countries in the Americas.

Introduction: The Right in the Americas Part I: The Americas as Right-Wing Transnational Space 1. United States: The Mecca of Conservatism in the Americas and its International Projection Part II: Genesis and Development of Right-Wing Actors 2. Argentina: Democracy, Authoritarianism and the Pursuit of Order 3. Canada: The Evolution, Transformation, and Diversity of Conservatism 4. Colombia: Matrices, Tensions and Contexts for Explaining the Origin and Change of Right-Wing Politics 5. Honduras: The Problem of the Origin of Political Ideas on the Right 6. Mexico: The Right, from Opposition to Power and Back 7. Uruguay: The Political Right and Some Landmark Moments in History, from the Foundational Anti-Jacobinism to the Reemergence of the Militaristic Far-Right Part III: Contemporary Expressions of the Right 8. Brazil: The New Right and the Rise of Jair Bolsonaro 9. Chile: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy on the Right 10. Venezuela: Democracy as Market, or How the Right-Wing Opposition Confused the Two in its Quest for Power Part IV: Conclusions The Right in the Americas: Concluding Remarks