Populism in Argentina – seven decades of peronism

Abstract

The first chapter presented the main characteristics of populism in Latin America, while the second and third analyzes the politics of charismatic leaders Peron party - Juan Peron, representative of classical populism, and Carlos Menem, representative of neo-liberal populism. The last chapter is devoted to the ideology and politics of the couple Nestor and Cristina Kirchner. All these Peron leaders, depending on the political situation, maneuvered between the political left and right options. The fact that a populist movement, Peronism, can easily modify your content speaks in favor of the thesis that populism is a poorly-based ideology. The author argues that on the example of economic nationalism and opposition elites and „dangerous to others“ and concludes that, although they represented different ideologies, Peronism, ‘menemism’ and kirchnerism have much more similarities than differences.