Reviews
Goes far beyond the Argentine case and provides us with an insightful, theoretically challenging contribution to the comparative study of conservative parties.
The theoretical framework raises relevant questions for democracies everywhere.
Gibson's book works at multiple levels. This is something of a tour de force.
A first-rate book. It makes a number of contributions to the study of Argentine politics and to comparative work on Latin America. It offers fresh historical perspective on the failure of democracy to take root in Argentina, and provides important new material on the challenges faced by conservative politicians in aggregating diverse sectors of their 'core constituency' while reorienting their political activity toward electoral politics. It is written in a way that will be of considerable interest to comparativists.