The turn to the left of the year 2003 as a historical paradigm in Argentina: political personalism in perennial renewal

Authors

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate if the most recent left turn in Argentina can be considered a critical juncture; understood here as a period of significant change capable of perpetuating itself in time and space. In this sense, a process-tracing method underlies the institutionalist-historical analysis in which it is proposed to delineate the permissive, productive and reproductive conditions of the election of Néstor Kirchner in 2003. Therefore, it is concluded that this Argentine period of change is not limited to purely national factors, but it is related to a much more complex personalist subjectivity that lasts until today.

Keywords:

Argentina, Critical Juncture, Kirchnerismo, Peronismo

Author Biographies

Eduarda Moura Pereira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Estudiante de Ciencias Económicas en la Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) y becaria de investigación por la Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (Fapemig)

Fernanda Cimini Salles, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doctora en Sociología por la Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, con doctorado en Ciencias
Políticas por el Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Profesora Adjunta del Departamento
de Economía en la Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).