{"title":"Why Leaders Intensify Identity Entrepreneurship: Anti-Corruption Pressure and the Solidarity Mechanism in Peru","authors":"Felix Puemape","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10072","url":null,"abstract":"Why do leaders intensify identity entrepreneurship? Existing scholarship treats it as a structural constant, available where cleavages are salient, rather than a behavior whose intensity varies with political conditions. Working within the instrumentalist tradition of social identities, this article theorizes anti-corruption pressure as a cause of that variation. Such pressure varies in biographical content (whether media revelations, congressional proceedings, and prosecutorial acts name the leader and the family), and this content makes legal exposure translatable into a persecution frame. When credible, the translation activates a solidarity mechanism with two outputs emerging at different rates: a loyal base among identity-linked publics whose disapproval attenuates independently of programmatic performance, and endorsement from identity-led social organizations that raises the political costs of accountability. Credibility requires a pre-political biographical anchor; prior polarization and macroeconomic deterioration relax the strategy’s costs. Process tracing of peripheral identity entrepreneurship (PIE) during Pedro Castillo’s presidency in Peru (2021–22) illustrates the argument.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labor Under Strain: The Latin American Right and the Politics of Market Reform","authors":"Andrés Schipani, Olivia Berisso, Tomás Divizia","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10070","url":null,"abstract":"What explains differences in labor market reforms among conservative governments in Latin America during the 2010s–20s? Analyzing the 2000s “pink tide” as a critical juncture, we argue that two policy legacies account for this cross-national variation. First, the degree of labor movement empowerment under leftist governments conditioned whether subsequent conservative administrations pursued radical or more moderate reforms. Second, labor movement cohesion—shaped by the encompassment of confederations, partisan alignments, and bargaining institutions—determined whether governments pursued inequitable (targeting specific segments of the workforce) or equitable reforms. We analyze the administrations of Temer and Bolsonaro in Brazil, Macri and Milei in Argentina, and Lacalle Pou in Uruguay. Our main contributions are to examine the seldom-explored distributional equity of austerity reforms in Latin America, demonstrating that under conditions of acute fiscal stress the public–private divide becomes a central dimension of labor market reform, and to introduce labor movement cohesion as a new explanatory variable in labor policy analysis.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia Margaret Zulver, Kiran Stallone, Leigh A. Payne
{"title":"The Right Mobilizing Against Gender and Women’s Rights in Latin America","authors":"Julia Margaret Zulver, Kiran Stallone, Leigh A. Payne","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10068","url":null,"abstract":"Gender rights are under attack across Latin America. This article analyzes these threats to rights by “right-against-rights” (RAR) mobilizations in the region. We do so by drawing on an original RAR database of such mobilizations in seven countries and transnationally with over 700 mobilizations, 75.5 percent of them targeting gender rights. We further explore three emblematic case studies to analyze the dynamics of this recent phenomenon of anti-gender RAR mobilizations. Our findings develop new insights into who mobilizes against gender rights, against what sets of rights, how, where, why and when, and with what impact. In responding to these questions, we disaggregate different types of anti-gender rights actors, their motives, and their strategies. Our findings suggest that there is much more variety in the aims and tactics used by the RAR around gender than the existing literature captures.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The bidirectional association between electoral rules and the effective number of parties: Evidence from the Chilean Congress","authors":"Nicolás Mimica, Patricio Navia","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10075","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between electoral institutions and the party system is one of the main topics of political science. Here we delve deeper into a diachronic analysis using a database of almost 200 years of history. By collecting data on the effective number of parties (ENP) in Chile, an early multiparty system which has had numerous changes in electoral rules, we investigate the association between electoral reforms and ENP in both chambers of Congress. We classify 18 electoral reforms and explore 54 legislative elections held in Chile since 1833 until 2025. Major and technical changes in electoral rules account for noticeable changes in the ENP. The effect of electoral reforms is not always immediate, nor does their adoption correspond to a linear trajectory, and sometimes reforms reflect social and political changes that already occurred in the political system. The evidence suggests bidirectional association and nuanced dynamics between electoral rules and the ENP.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leonardo Avritzer and Lucio R. Rennó , The Crisis of Democracy in Brazil. Cham: Springer Nature, 2025. Tables, figures, index, 156 pp.; hardcover $109.99.","authors":"Anthony W. Pereira","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"244 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mexico: Substantial Rights Advances and The Puzzle of Limited Anti-rights Mobilization","authors":"Karina Mariela Ansolabehere, Jackeline Alba Udave","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10073","url":null,"abstract":"This article refines Payne, Zulver, and Escoffier’s (2023) theory of the right against rights (RagR) through the Mexican case, where significant advances in the rights of disadvantaged groups coexist with limited anti-rights mobilization mainly targeting gender equality and sexual and gender diversity. We argue that the credible threat posed by rights advances—a central condition of the theory—is necessary but insufficient for RagR mobilization. Its translation into collective action depends on two additional conditions: functional suppressors—state and non-state actors that neutralize the redistribution of power enabled by legal advances—and pre-existing resources among right-wing anti-rights civil-society actors. Using a sequential mixed-methods design, we assess this specification across four agendas: reproductive rights, sexual diversity, irregular migrants, and Indigenous peoples. RagR mobilization emerges only where functional suppressors are marginal and prior anti-rights organizational resources exist, as in the gender-equality and sexual-diversity agendas; it remains virtually absent elsewhere. This specification advances RagR theory and informs comparative research on anti-rights mobilization in Latin America and beyond.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Languages of Memory in Brazil’s Democratic Transition - Cristina Buarque de Hollanda and José Szwako, Disputed Pasts: Forgetting and Remembering the Dictatorship in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2026. Timeline, index, 256 pp.; hardcover $45.00.","authors":"Paulo Henrique Paschoeto Cassimiro","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"98 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disentangling the Incumbent’s Advantage: New Estimates of Partisan and Candidate Separate Effects – RETRACTION","authors":"Matias Brum,Rodrigo Aguirre","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clientelism Without Party Machines: The Use of Claim-Making Groups as Organizational Substitutes","authors":"Gonzalo Contreras","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10066","url":null,"abstract":"While party machines have been extensively studied, far less attention has been given to the organizational substitutes that mayors rely on in non-machine contexts. In local settings where multiple citizens’ associations coexist, why do mayors partner repeatedly with some community groups, but not others, as substitutes for clientelistic mobilization? Drawing on five years of fieldwork in Chile—97 interviews, shadowing, and field notes—alongside descriptive statistics, I show that mayors shift key organizational costs onto territorially rooted groups whose primary activity is claim-making. These groups offer ready-to-use mobilization infrastructures, developed through claim-making routines, in exchange for targeted distribution that helps address members’ demands. Because their vertically integrated structures are embedded in neighborhood life, they are more likely to function as intermediaries than groups that lack these features. The article advances debates on voter mobilization amid party disaffection and weak vertical linkages between parties and citizens, and highlights the political implications of claim-making.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148596128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is the Scope and Behavior of the Transnational Network of Anti-rights Groups?","authors":"Janet Elizabeth Haldane","doi":"10.1017/lap.2026.10058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10058","url":null,"abstract":"This article theorizes on the mobilization of R-TANS (right-wing transnational advocacy networks [Payne 2023]) globally, with a focus on those that target gender, reproductive, and sexuality-based (GRAS) rights. An international anti-GRAS network has emerged, increasing their power through transnational allyship. This article describes and analyses an original database of anti-GRAS actors that form this network, asking: <jats:italic>who</jats:italic> are the groups; <jats:italic>where</jats:italic> do they originate and mobilize; <jats:italic>how</jats:italic> do they mobilize; and <jats:italic>why</jats:italic> ? I develop an original analytical framework drawing on transnational social movements and anti-gender mobilization literature. Applying this framework to database analysis, I hypothesize on these questions while drawing on social network theory to examine the strength of ties between groups and the extent of the transnational network. It is unique in its contribution, considering the overlap of groups that oppose both LGBTQIA+ and reproductive rights and the alliances they develop to further the goals of the entire network.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148589093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}