CHILE: Orthodoxy and heterodoxy on the right1

Stéphanie Alenda, Carmen Le Foulon, and Julieta Suárez-Cao explore how intellectual traditions and ideological influences after 1973 helped shape the contemporary Chilean right. These influences are manifested in three distinct political families: a subsidiary right, a libertarian orthodox right, and a solidary right. Based on a survey applied to almost 700 right-wing party cadres, the authors of this chapter build categories of right-wing elites along the state-market axis. They demonstrate that the subsidiary approach, established during the 1973-1989 military regime, keeps predominating among right-wing party leaderships. Differences are more apparent along the sociocultural axis than along state-market dividing line. Beyond political values, party allegiance also shows significant results. Finally, the authors reveal that within the coalition between new and conventional parties on the right-denominated Let’s go Chile (Chile Vamos)-there is disagreement between a core group displaying pro-market and conservative moral values, and a heterodox cluster of members supporting state-centred and morally liberal positions.