Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)

This article explores different styles of Peronist leadership in Buenos Aires, their impact on provincial partisan behavior, and the necessary conditions for the emergence of strong leadership. At the same time, it throws light on two reasons, which justify this case study. Firstly, it underlines Bu...

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Main Authors: María Matilde Ollier, Pablo Palumbo
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Language:English
Published: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales 2018-11-01
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Online Access:https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/COLEC/article/view/1400
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description This article explores different styles of Peronist leadership in Buenos Aires, their impact on provincial partisan behavior, and the necessary conditions for the emergence of strong leadership. At the same time, it throws light on two reasons, which justify this case study. Firstly, it underlines Buenos Aires´s unquestioned relevance in Argentinean politics, its particular overlapping at national level, and its lack of autonomy in relation to federal power (Ollier: 2010). These features make this province determining when it comes to understanding the country´s governability. Secondly, it is based on three statements: Buenos Aires Peronism is the only party which governed uninterruptedly for twenty-eight years; its electoral national stronghold is located in greater Buenos Aires; and the political struggle for the party´s national leadership takes place mainly in Buenos Aires. The hypothesis suggests that Strong Provincial Leadership (SPL) keeps Buenos Aires Peronist party united, beyond the Peronist president’s strength. On the contrary, weak provincial leadership gives way to the emergence of splinter factions, leading to far reaching consequences nationwide. In an attempt to test this hypothesis, we define SPL, point out its attributes and operationalize them in the presence and absence of SPL, so as to build a typology that compares styles of leadership, i.e. this is a conceptual article with an empirical illustration.
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spelling doaj.art-9e0d2cde27754bcfb039500ee8b93dfb2023-04-06T15:30:11ZengPontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones InternacionalesRevista Colección0328-79981850-003X2018-11-0102913481291Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)María Matilde Ollier0Pablo Palumbo1Escuela de Política y Gobierno - Universidad Nacional de San MartínEscuela de Política y Gobierno - Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)This article explores different styles of Peronist leadership in Buenos Aires, their impact on provincial partisan behavior, and the necessary conditions for the emergence of strong leadership. At the same time, it throws light on two reasons, which justify this case study. Firstly, it underlines Buenos Aires´s unquestioned relevance in Argentinean politics, its particular overlapping at national level, and its lack of autonomy in relation to federal power (Ollier: 2010). These features make this province determining when it comes to understanding the country´s governability. Secondly, it is based on three statements: Buenos Aires Peronism is the only party which governed uninterruptedly for twenty-eight years; its electoral national stronghold is located in greater Buenos Aires; and the political struggle for the party´s national leadership takes place mainly in Buenos Aires. The hypothesis suggests that Strong Provincial Leadership (SPL) keeps Buenos Aires Peronist party united, beyond the Peronist president’s strength. On the contrary, weak provincial leadership gives way to the emergence of splinter factions, leading to far reaching consequences nationwide. In an attempt to test this hypothesis, we define SPL, point out its attributes and operationalize them in the presence and absence of SPL, so as to build a typology that compares styles of leadership, i.e. this is a conceptual article with an empirical illustration.https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/COLEC/article/view/1400liderazgo provincial fuertetipología de liderazgos provincialespartido peronista bonaerensefragmentación partidariaunidad partidaria
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Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)
Revista Colección
liderazgo provincial fuerte
tipología de liderazgos provinciales
partido peronista bonaerense
fragmentación partidaria
unidad partidaria
title Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)
title_full Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)
title_fullStr Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)
title_full_unstemmed Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)
title_short Strong Provincial Leadership: Concept and Typology in Buenos Aires Peronism (1983-2015)
title_sort strong provincial leadership concept and typology in buenos aires peronism 1983 2015
topic liderazgo provincial fuerte
tipología de liderazgos provinciales
partido peronista bonaerense
fragmentación partidaria
unidad partidaria
url https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/COLEC/article/view/1400
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