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Item type:Publication, Peru in 2023: From polarization to the conservative and populist coalition during the government of Dina Boluarte(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2024-08-01)2023 was a very particular and significant year in Peru. It was the year of Dina Boluarte’s government, who, as vice president, succeeded the ousted Pedro Castillo at the end of 2022 to complete the 2021-2026 presidential term. Remarkably, given the experience of Castillo’s government, the circumstances of his impeachment by Congress, and the characteristics of Peruvian political dynamics post-2016, the expected scenario was the continuation of a dynamic of polarization and political and social confrontation. Unexpectedly, we witnessed the formation at the heights of institutional politics of a majority that crosses right-wing and left-wing groups, centered around conservative and populist values opposed to various institutional reform initiatives implemented in recent years, accompanied by relative citi-zen demobilization. Although this seriously delegitimized the government and Congress, the absence of viable short-term alternatives generated relative stability. The problematic aspect is that Peru’s fragile democracy seems to be captured “from below” by various local leaders and particularistic interests, a consequence of the extreme weakness of political parties, constituting a peculiar and dangerous path of democratic deterioration. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Left-Wing Extremism in Peru: Structural Conditions, Leadership, and Political Will(Springer Nature, 2023-09-21)How to understand left-wing extremism? Why does it develop in some contexts and not in others? In the Peruvian social sciences, there is a strong intellectual tradition that establishes a causal relationship between extremist left-wing political options and exclusionary structural conditions. In this chapter, I argue that what is decisive to understand the dynamics of extremism has been how political leadership has diagnosed the political situation and the subsequent courses of political action, based on the diverse array of extremist left-wing experiences Peru has had in the second half of the twentieth century.