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Record W4409688663 · doi:10.1163/1569206x-bja10067

Self-Saboteur: The Experience of Latin American Populism

2025· article· en· W4409688663 on OpenAlexaff
Jeffery R. Webber

Bibliographic record

VenueHistorical Materialism · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical theory and Gramsci
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPopulismLatin AmericansPolitical scienceSociologyHumanitiesPhilosophyLawPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract This editorial perspective develops a theoretical critique of populism in Latin America, which it takes to be the predominant form that reformist politics has assumed in the region since the 1930s. It outlines an analytical approach pivoting on the five elements of hegemonic crisis, state arbitration of class struggle, asymmetrical multi-class coalition, top-down mobilisation of popular support through mechanisms of controlled inclusion and a self-undermining paradox common to reformism more generally. This framework is sufficiently abstract to enable portability across different times and spaces of modern capitalist development in Latin America. With the five analytical premises established as a backdrop, the editorial perspective then examines what is specific to Latin American populism in the twenty-first century, followed by a detailed investigation of the phenomenon in Ecuador. The editorial perspective demonstrates that it is impossible to understand the region’s present destituent impasse – in which the far-right enjoys considerable advantages – without a thoroughgoing autopsy of the preceding Pink Tide populist conjuncture from which it emerged.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.939
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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