Los perdedores importan: la derecha latinoamericana durante el giro a la izquierda
Federico Acosta y Lara 
Abstract
How did Latin American right-wing parties adapt programmatically to remain competitive during the left turn? This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the political strategies of right-wing parties—the main losers of that shift. Using a two-dimensional spatial approach and quantitative analysis, it argues that right-wing parties adopted a set of programmatic positioning strategies to stay competitive. They de-emphasized economic issues while emphasizing value-based ones, centered their positions on the economic axis while moving toward the extreme on the values axis, and blurred their stances on economic issues while clarifying their positions on value issues. These propositions are tested using expert survey data from V-Party, legislative elite surveys from PELA-USAL, and measures based on the Manifesto Project.
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