Olivier Dabène is Professor of Political Science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and Senior Researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI, Sciences Po), France. He is also the President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean ([...] and Visiting Professor in many Latin American universities.

The volume offers an innovative perspective on Latin American recent political evolutions

It documents pendular politics in contemporary Latin America focusing on cycles of elections prompting alternances

It offers a rich collection of case studies illuminated by top Latin-Americanist scholars

Chapter 1: Introduction. Electoral cycles, continuity and change in Latin American politics. A framework for analysis.- Part 1: Conservative alternations.- Chapter 2: New political cycle in Chile: from centrist consensus to the struggle for cultural hegemony.- Chapter 3: Step right or step ahead? Explaining the 2019 presidential swing in Uruguay.- Chapter 4: Radicalization of alternation: political change and degraded democracy in El Salvador (2019-2021).- Chapter 5: Guatemala, an alternation in continuity.- Chapter 6: The return of the divided rights. Alternations in Peru.- Part 2: Progressist alternations.- Chapter 7: Polarization, depolarization and (re)polarization. The 2019 electoral process and a new alternation in Argentine democracy.- Chapter 8: Mexico's 2018 Tsunami-alternation: change and continuities following the collapse of the transitional three-party system.- Chapter 9: Panama: alternation inside the box.- Part 3: Conservative alternations following a destitution.- Chapter 10: Brazil 2016-2018: a double political alternation.- Chapter 11: The 2019 elections in Bolivia.- Part 4: Partial alternations.- Chapter 12: Colombia: the country where peace allowed political alternation.- Chapter 13: Paraguay 2018. A country of electoral "intralternation".- Chapter 14: Costa Rica's 2018 and 2020 elections: a partial alternation and a conservative turn.- Part 5: Electoral authoritarianism.- Chapter 15: The Sandinista order. Changes in voting procedures and authoritarianism in Nicaragua.- Chapter 16: Venezuela: the authoritarian and conservative turn of Nicolás Maduro.- Chapter 17: From competitive authoritarianism to state capture: a contested re-election in Honduras (2017).