Is Peronism left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Peronism scores −05 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +03. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Peronism 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, Peronism scores +06. Elected but plebiscitary; press pressure, packed courts, a movement rather than a programmatic party.

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Peronism

Justicialism · 1946– · Argentina · National Populist · Movement · coding confidence medium

−05ECcollective

+03CUtraditional

+06AUmonist

+06SCcentral

+04IDascriptive

+01CHcoercive

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

Social justice, economic independence and political sovereignty, delivered by a leader speaking directly for the shirtless masses.

Economic model

Nationalised railways and utilities, big wage rises, import substitution, a state-linked union federation.

Organisation of powers

Elected but plebiscitary; press pressure, packed courts, a movement rather than a programmatic party.

Reading note

Has produced governments coded from far left to hard right in this dataset, under one banner. A structural warning about naming a movement rather than measuring it.

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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 −05

Coded −5 for the 1946–55 governments specifically; the movement as a whole spans fourteen points and is the reason Menemism and Kirchnerism are separate entries.

Documented act or statuteRailways, telephones and the central bank were nationalised between 1946 and 1948.
Documented act or statuteReal wages rose sharply in the first term through state-backed collective bargaining.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +03

Coded mildly traditional: women's suffrage and social rights alongside a Catholic corporatist frame.

Documented act or statuteWomen received the vote in 1947 and a women's branch of the party was created.
Documented act or statuteDivorce was legalised in 1954 during the conflict with the church and repealed after the 1955 coup.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +06

Coded +6: elected, and hostile to the institutions that could check it.

Documented act or statuteThe supreme court was impeached and replaced in 1947; the main opposition newspaper was expropriated in 1951.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +06

Coded +6: provincial autonomy overridden by federal intervention.

Documented act or statuteFederal intervenors were appointed over provinces governed by the opposition.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +04

Coded mildly positive: the nation defined against foreign capital and a domestic oligarchy.

Programme textEconomic independence was one of the three founding banners of the movement.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +01

Coded near neutral: constitutional in method, with a mobilised movement and organised street power.

Documented act or statuteThe movement's founding day commemorates a mass mobilisation that freed its leader from detention in 1945.

How it moved

Positions are recorded at dated anchor points tied to a documented moment — a programme adopted, a government formed, a reversal. Nothing is interpolated between them, because nothing is known between them. Figures in amber moved by two points or more from the previous anchor.

Anchor	EC	CU	AU	SC	ID	CH	What it is tied to
1946	−05	+03	+06	+06	+04	+01	Railways, telephones and the central bank nationalised; real wages rise sharply.
1973	−06	+03	+06	+06	+04	+02	Return from exile amid armed conflict between the movement's own factions.
1991	+08	+04	+06	+04	+02	−01	Menem: oil, telecoms, rail, airlines and pensions privatised under the same banner.
2003	−06	+01	+05	+05	+02	−01	Kirchner: renationalisation, price controls, export taxes.
2023	−06	+01	+05	+05	+02	−01	The movement loses the presidency to a self-described anarcho-capitalist.

Net movement, 1946 to 2023: CU −2, ID −2, CH −2. A trajectory records where an organisation has been. It does not forecast, and several organisations in this corpus moved a long way with no warning available in advance.

Where it came from, and what came after

becameMenemism
The same party, at the opposite end of the economic axis.
becameKirchnerism
The same party again, back at the original end.

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). Peronism. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/peronism/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

Free to quote and reproduce with attribution. This is a synthesis rather than a peer-reviewed dataset — where an authoritative figure is needed, cite the Chapel Hill Expert Survey, the Manifesto Project or V-Dem.