Is Menemism left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Menemism scores +08 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +04. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Menemism authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Menemism scores +06. Elected, then amended the constitution to allow re-election, expanded the supreme court, and governed extensively by decree.

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Menemism

Peronist neoliberalism · 1989–1999 · Argentina · Neoliberal Populist · Held state power · coding confidence medium

+08ECmarket

+04CUtraditional

+06AUmonist

+04SCcentral

+02IDascriptive

−01CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Peronism turned inside out: the movement of the shirtless masses used to privatise the state and peg the currency to the dollar.

Economic model

Privatised oil, telecoms, airlines, rail and pensions; currency board convertibility; opened trade; ended in the 2001 collapse.

Organisation of powers

Elected, then amended the constitution to allow re-election, expanded the supreme court, and governed extensively by decree.

Reading note

Governed under exactly the same party banner as Kirchnerism and sits fourteen points away from it on the economic axis. The single most useful entry in the dataset for showing that a movement name is not a position.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +08

Same party banner, opposite economic coordinate. This entry exists to make that legible.

Documented act or statuteYPF, Aerolíneas Argentinas, telecoms, rail and pensions were privatised between 1990 and 1994.
Documented act or statuteThe 1991 Convertibility Law pegged the peso to the dollar by statute.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +04

Coded mildly traditional: a Catholic social frame alongside the market programme.

Documented act or statuteA constitutional amendment attempt to entrench a right to life from conception was pursued in 1994.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +06

Coded positive on constitutional change to permit re-election and expansion of the supreme court.

Documented act or statuteThe supreme court was expanded from five to nine members in 1990.
Documented act or statuteThe 1994 constitutional reform permitted presidential re-election.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +04

Coded mildly central: provincial finances subordinated through federal transfers and bailouts.

Documented act or statuteProvincial banks were privatised and provinces bound to federal fiscal agreements.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +02

Coded mildly positive with no ascriptive criterion.

Documented act or statuteImmigration policy was liberalised for Mercosur nationals during the period.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −01

Coded near neutral: elected and governing extensively by necessity decree.

Documented act or statuteOver five hundred necessity and urgency decrees were issued in ten years.

Where it came from, and what came after

takes its doctrine fromNeoliberalism
Convertibility and mass privatisation applied the same programme under a Peronist banner.
is a continuation ofPeronism
The same party, at the opposite end of the economic axis.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Argentina

Arguments this entry is used in

Claims in circulation that turn on where this organisation sits. Each gives the strongest case for it, the strongest case against, and the measurement.

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Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Menemism. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/menemism/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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