The preference for inequality and the rise of the right-wing governments in Latin America:
an econometric approach to the Dubet’s hypothesis
Abstract
With the international financial crisis, an intensification of the conservative movements reborn process (with new fascist drifts) is verified on a global scale (Nye, 2017). In our region, the return of extreme right-wing expressions in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Peru are examples of what some authors call the end of the progressive cycle (Svampa, 2017). The specificity of the Latin American case does not allow the theoretical analyzes obtained for developed countries to be naively extrapolated (Blee and Creasap, 2010), but requires incorporating other hypotheses to address regional features. In this sense, the objective of our research is to provide quantitative empirical evidence for the Dubet's hypothesis (2014) about the preference for inequality and contribute to the understanding of the new conservative expressions that win elections in a region where well-being has steadily increased in the last decade with progressive governments.
Keywords: preference for inequality; well-being; Latin America; new conservative expressions; GSREGDownloads
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