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1 1 8th ECPR General Conference Panel: Foreign Policy in the Global South THE WEIGHT OF IDEOLOGY ON THE ATTITUDE OF LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES TOWARD THE UNITED STATES 1 João Carlos Amoroso Botelho Federal University of Goiás, Brazil João Pedro Tavares Damasceno Federal University of Goiás, Brazil Glasgow, Scotland From September 3rd to 6th 1 The presentation of this paper is been supported by FAPEG (Foundation of Research Support from the State of Goiás).

2 2 THE WEIGHT OF IDEOLOGY ON THE ATTITUDE OF LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES TOWARD THE UNITED STATES João Carlos Amoroso Botelho Federal University of Goiás, Brazil João Pedro Tavares Damasceno Federal University of Goiás, Brazil Abstract: There is an expectation that the ideological position of ruling parties in Latin America foresees the attitude of their administrations toward the United States. In this sense, left-wing governments would be hostile to North Americans, whereas right-wing governments would be friendly. The purpose of this paper is to use data about the vote coincidence of the United States with 17 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) in the General Assembly of the United Nations, contrasting with the ruling party s location in the left-right scale for each period, as evaluated by legislators from other parties in each country. From these data, the paper employs statistical analysis and verifies whether there is correlation between the variables, as to respond to the expectation about the impact of ideology on the attitude of Latin American countries toward the United States. Keywords: ideology; Latin America-United States relations.

3 3 1. Introduction There is an expectation, influenced by the historical of the United States actions against left-wing governments in Latin America, suggesting that the ideological position of ruling parties in the region foresees the attitude of their administrations toward the United States. In this sense, left-wing governments would be hostile to North Americans, whereas right-wing governments would be friendly. The purpose of this paper is to use data about the vote coincidence of the United States with 17 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) in the General Assembly of the United Nations, contrasting with the ruling party s and the president s locations in the left-right scale for each government period, as evaluated by legislators from other parties in each country. From these data, the study employs statistical analysis and verifies whether there is correlation between the variables, as to respond to the expectation about the impact of ideology on the attitude of Latin American countries toward the United States. The paper assesses firstly whether the attitude of Latin American countries regarding the United States can be explained by the ideology and then whether the expectation that left-wing governments are hostile to North Americans and right-wing governments are friendly can be confirmed or not. This expectation has already been tested to a certain extent in the literature. Alcántara and Rivas ( show that relations with the United States constitute a relevant factor in the division between right and left-wing in Latin America. Between the five variable groups tested, the one defined as United States image is the third with greater explanatory power, responsible for 9.7% of the total variation (ALCÁNTARA AND RIVAS, 2007: 358). Simultaneously, it is between the two dimensions with higher variability, that is, with higher differentiation capacity between right and left-wing, along with the dimension of the values (ALCÁNTARA AND RIVAS, 2007: 361). The variables that compose the dimension on the United States image are: preference for the United States as commercial partner; preference for the United States as investor partner and interest in belonging to the Free Trade Area of the Americas in the future (ALCÁNTARA AND RIVAS, 2007: 371). On the other hand, between the evaluated political parties, the factor that seems to be more important to explain position divergences concerning the United States is geographical

4 4 location, that is, from which country the political party is and in which region of the American continent this country is located, and not ideology. The group pro-united States is composed only by Central and North American political parties, being three from the left-wing and one from the right-wing, whereas the anti-united States group is formed exclusively by South American political parties, being, once more, three from the left and one from the right (ALCÁNTARA AND RIVAS, 2007: ). Ribeiro (2012) tested a series of factors to explain the position of legislators from Chile, Colombia and Peru in the deliberations on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) of their countries with the United States. In the cases of Colombia and Peru, ideology was an important factor, as expected that the left-wing orientation, of the Peruvian legislator or the Colombian legislator s party, meant a lower predisposition to approving such a treaty (RIBEIRO, 2012: ). If, on one hand, the results of Ribeiro are divergent to those of Alcántara and Rivas, by showing that the left-wing ideology stimulates a hostile position toward the United States, on the other, both studies coincide to a certain extent, since the countries in which Ribeiro identified this correlation are from South America, where Alcántara and Rivas point that the anti-united States political parties are concentrated. The contradictory results about the direction in which ideology influences the attitude of Latin American countries towards the United States are one more reason to properly test, with a wider range of cases, the hypothesis that Latin American left-wing governments are hostile to North Americans whereas right-wing governments are friendly. This is the purpose of the paper. 2. Methodology The data utilized in this study have two sources. For vote coincidence in the UN General Assembly between the United States and the 17 Latin American countries, the source is the annual report made by the US Department of State, which assesses the convergence proportion with all countries represented in the cases that the United States voted Yes or No. For the location in the left-right scale of ruling parties and presidents of the 17 Latin American countries, the source is the Observatorio de Élites Parlamentarias de América Latina, from the Instituto de Iberoamérica of the Universidad de Salamanca, in Spain. This project performs periodical interviews with Latin American legislators. Between the questions, legislators are asked to locate some political parties as well as politicians in the left-right scale, considering the left as 1 and the right as 10.

5 5 The location of the ruling party, understood as the president s party, and that of the president himself in each government period in which there was a round of interviews are the ideological position indicators of the respective administration and constitute the explanatory variables tested in the paper. The governments attitude toward the United States, the variable to be explained, is measured by the indicator of simple convergence in the UN General Assembly, the same used in the US Department of State s annual report. According to this indicator there is agreement when the votes given by two countries are equal, in the case of this study, the United States and each one of the 17 countries chosen. The location in the left-right scale is widely accepted and utilized in the literature on political parties and party systems in Europe (SANI AND SARTORI, 1983; MAIR, 1997) and in Latin America (COPPEDGE, 1998; COLOMER AND ESCATEL, 2005). The option to use both the location of the ruling party and that of the president as ideological position indicators of the respective government and, consequently, explanatory variables occurs due to two factors: 1) interviews with Latin American legislators offer, most of the time, answers to both questions; 2) by using both locations, it is possible to test more than one explanatory variable. The decision to adopt vote coincidence in the UN General Assembly as attitude indicator of Latin American countries regarding the United States is less consensual, nevertheless it is supported by authors who consider that these votes are a valid indicator of foreign policy orientation (TOMLIN, 1985; THACKER, 1999; VOETEN, 2000). Between those that resort to this procedure, the measures that stand out are the index of agreement, from Lijphart (1963), the simple convergence indicator, utilized here. As for Amorim Neto (2011: 64-65), the justification of this choice is that the US Department of State, diplomats and formulators of foreign policy, including those from Brazil, adopt this measure. The selected countries are all of those in which the Observatorio de Élites Parlamentarias de América Latina has accomplished at least one round of interviews, except for the Dominican Republic, once this paper has opted not to include Caribbean countries. The considered period goes from 1995 to 2013, which are the years that the US Department of State s website, at the time of the consult, made available data on the vote coincidence with the United States in the UN General Assembly. Even if this study wished to extend the period using other sources to seek the results of votes in more years, it would not be possible, as there would be no data for the independent variables, once the rounds of interviews with legislators started in 1994.

6 6 In order to test the correlation between variables, it is employed a regression analysis with panel data. This technique is adequate to the characteristics of the database that was built for this paper, in which, for every country, there is the same number of data per year. Three models were elaborated, aggregate, with fixed effects and with random effects. By comparing the models, based on the coefficient significance obtained for the independent variables and in the most appropriate test in each comparison, the most adequate model has been the aggregate. All tests were also performed in order to verify whether this model is statistically adequate. There is neither heteroscedasticity nor multicolinearity, the residues have normal distribution and the model has been correctly specified. 3. Results The period between 1995 and 2013 covers 96 governments in the 17 countries, complete or incomplete ones, due to term interruptions, temporariness of the president, beginning before the year of 1995 or continuity until a posterior year to From these 96 governments 2, seven were ruled out, due to their extremely short periods which conveyed no participation in the UN General Assembly. In this period, there was a high variation in vote coincidence with the United States, which has reached the peak of 68.8% with the Argentina of Carlos Menem in 1995 and dropped to the limit of 6.3% with the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez in These two years, 1995 and 2007, are also the ones that present, respectively, the highest (46.9%) and the lowest (12.1%) convergence means for the group of 17 countries (see table 1). The tendency in the evolution of this mean was a drop between 1995 and 2007, when a recovery started, reaching the value of 45.4% in Formally, there are four more governments that have not been accounted, three from Venezuela and one from Ecuador. In the Venezuelan case, two governments had, each, the duration of one day, one factual, from the Coup d état against Hugo Chávez in April of 2002, and one temporary, substituting the latter. Since Chávez continued his term and never resigned, these two governments have not been considered in the total number. There is still a first term by Chávez, obtained before the 1999 Constitution s coming into force. Under the new Charter, presidential elections were performed in 2000, which gave Chávez a six-year term. For practical purposes, the period between 1999 and 2007 has been counted as one single government. As the same situation occurred in Ecuador, it was also applied to Rafael Correa in the period between 2007 and 2013.

7 Table 1 Vote coincidence with the United States in the UN General Assembly per year, in % (1) Country Mean Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Mean Refers to the coincidence proportion when the United States voted Yes or No Source: US Department of State 7

8 8 Despite its condition of main ally to the United States in South America, Colombia has also registered a vigorous drop regarding vote coincidence with the United States between 1995 and In fact, the third lowest convergence of all period between 1995 and 2013, of 7.4%, was with Álvaro Uribe s Colombia in The Colombian mean in this entire period is only higher than those of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The tendencies of drop in the vote coincidence with the United States until the second half of the 2000 s and of recovery since then are maintained when the analysis unit becomes the governments, however, the indexes present significant variation between countries in each of these two moments. Therefore, if, on one hand, these tendencies suggest that the foreign policy of George W. Bush ( ) and its reaction in Latin America may be the explanation for the vigorous drop in the vote coincidence with the United States, on the other, the significant variations in the indexes of countries at the same moment, of drop or recovery, suggest that there are other explanations, such as ideology. For instance, in the second half of the 1990 s, before the most accentuated drop, Carlos Menem s government ( ), classified as right-wing for both ruling party and president, showed a convergence mean of 56.0% with the United States, whereas the administration of the Colombian Ernesto Samper ( ), classified as center, registered a mean of 38.1% (see table 2). At the initial half of the 2000 s, when the coincidence drop increased, the first term of the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-, classified as left-wing, showed a mean of 18.4%, against 28.9% in the government of the Uruguayan Jorge Batlle ( ), classified as right-wing. Finally, as an example for the beginning of the 2010 s, when the recovery was already ongoing, the administration of the Panamanian Ricardo Martinelli (2009-, classified as right-wing, registered a mean of 53.2%, whereas the second term of the Bolivian Evo Morales ( ), classified as left-wing, presented, until 2013, a mean of 29.6%. These classifications are the means obtained from the answers of legislators interviewed in each round of the Proyecto Élites Parlamentarias Latinoamericanas when questioned about the ideological location of political parties and politicians in the left-right scale. The number of rounds varies according to the country. In many cases, new interviews were performed in each new legislature since the first half of the 1990 s. In others, the interviews started later. The question on ideological location of some political parties is present in the application of questionnaires done in every country. In it, the interviewed

9 9 congressperson did not classify their own party. For the countries in which there were no rounds of interviews with parliamentarians from all legislatures between 1995 and 2013, it was utilized the classifications that show in the interviews with parliamentarians from other legislature which do not coincide with that government. As for the question on the location of certain politicians, it is not present in some few questionnaire applications or it was done, however it does not include the president between the politicians mentioned. In these cases, the solution was to repeat for the president the classification received for his political party. Table 2 Vote coincidence with the US in the UN General Assembly by government, in % (1) Country Government Argentina Bolivia Brazil Menem ( ) Chile Frei ( ) Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico De la Rúa ( ) Duhalde ( ) Kirchner Cristina 1 ( ) Cristina 2 ( ) Sánchez Banzer Quiroga Sánchez Mesa de ( ( de Lozada 2001) 2002) Lozada 2005) 1 ( ( ) ) Rodríguez ( ) Morales 1 ( ) Morales 2 ( ) Cardoso Cardoso Lula da Lula da Rousseff 1 ( ( Silva 1 Silva 2 ( ) 2003) ( ) 2011) Lagos Bachelet Piñera ( (2006) 2010) Samper Pastrana Uribe 1 ( ( ) 2002) 2006) Uribe ) Santos Figueres Rodríguez Pacheco Arias ( ( ) 2002) 2006) 2010) Chinchilla Durán Bucaram Alarcón Mahuad Ballén ( ( ( ( ) 1998) 2000) 1996) Noboa ( ) Gutiérrez 2005) Palacio ( Correa 1 ( ) Correa 2 ( ) Calderón Flores Saca Funes ( ( ( ) 2004) 2009) De León Arzú Portillo Carpio ( ( ( ) 2004) 1996) Berger ( ) Colom ( ) Pérez Molina ( ) Reina Flores Maduro Zelaya Micheletti ( ( ( ) 2002) 2006) 2009) 2010) Lobo Zedillo Fox Calderón ( ) 2006) 2012) Peña Nieto ( )

10 10 Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Chamorro ( ) Peru Fujimori 1 ( ) Uruguay Venezuela Alemán ( ) Bolaños ( Ortega 1 ( ) Ortega 2 ( ) Pérez Moscoso Torrijos Martinelli ( ( ( ) 2004) 2009) Wasmosy Cubas González ( Grau Macchi 1998) ( ( ) 2003) Duarte Frutos 2008) Lugo ( ) Franco ( ) Cartes ( ) Fujimori 2 Toledo García Humala ( ( ( ) 2006) 2011) 2016) Sanguinetti Batlle Vázquez Mujica ( ( ( ) 2005) 2010) 2015) Caldera Chávez Chávez 1 ( ( ) ) Maduro ( ) Refers to the coincidence proportion when the United States voted Yes or No Source: US Department of State There are few cases in which the classifications of the ruling party and the president are very divergent (see table 3). Argentina is an example, with Néstor Kirchner s government (2003-, since the president was classified as left-wing, whereas his party was located on the right-wing. Another example comes from Guatemala, with Alfonso Portillo s term ( ). In this case, the highest discrepancy is not in the orientations, once the president was classified in the center and his party on the right, however, it is in the punctuations received by each one. Portillo received 5.30, whereas his party received The correlation test of the variables ruling party s ideology and president s ideology with the vote coincidence with the United States in the UN General Assembly, as indicator of the 17 Latin American countries attitudes toward North Americans, resulted in a statistically significant coefficient for the second factor, the president s ideology (see table 4). For a increase of 1.0 in the president s ideology, vote coincidence with the United States in the UN General Assembly rises 2.14 percentage points. That is, the more a Latin American president is to the right in the ideological spectrum, higher is the convergence of his government with the United States at the UN. The adjustment degree of the model is 5.48%, which means that the ruling party s and the president s ideologies explain 5.48% of the vote coincidence with the United States in the UN General Assembly.

11 11 Table 3 President s and ruling party s ideological locations by government (1) Country Government Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Menem ( ) (2) De la Rúa ( ) Duhalde ( ) Kirchner Cristina 1 ( ) (2) Cristina 2 ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Sánchez de Lozada 1 ( ) Banzer ( ) Quiroga ( ) (2) Sánchez de Lozada 2 ( ) Mesa 2005) Morales ) Morales ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre ,18 2,33 Cardoso 1 ( ) Cardoso 2 ( ) Lula da Silva 1 Lula da Silva 2 ( ) Rousseff ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Frei 2000) (2) Lagos ( ) (2) Bachelet 2010) Piñera RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Samper 1998) Pastrana ( ) Uribe 1 ( ) Uribe ) Santos RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Figueres 1998) Rodríguez ( ) Pacheco ( ) Arias 2010) Chinchilla RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Durán Ballén ( ) Bucaram ( ) Mahuad ( ) Noboa ( ) (2) Gutiérrez 2005) Palacio ( Correa 1 ( ) Correa 2 ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre ,57 3,44 3,57 3,44 Calderón 1999) (2) Flores ( ) (2) Saca ( ) (2) Funes ( RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre De León Carpio ( ) Arzú ( ) Portillo ( ) Berger ( ) Colom ( ) Pérez Molina ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Reina 1998) Flores ( ) Maduro ( ) Zelaya 2009) Micheletti ( ) Lobo RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Zedillo 2000) (2) Fox ( ) (2) Calderón 2012) Peña Nieto ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre

12 12 Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Chamorro ( ) Alemán ( ) Bolaños ( Ortega 1 ( ) Ortega 2 ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Pérez 1999) Moscoso ( ) Torrijos ( ) Martinelli ( RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Wasmosy ( ) Peru Fujimori 1 ( ) Uruguay Venezuela Cubas Grau ( ) González Macchi ( ) Duarte Frutos 2008) Lugo ( ) Franco ( ) Cartes ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre ,33 6,33 Fujimori 2 ( ) Toledo ( ) García 2011) Humala ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Sanguinetti ( ) Batlle ( ) Vázquez ( ) Mujica 2015) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre Caldera 1999) Chávez 1 ( Chávez 2 ( ) Maduro ( ) RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP Pre RuP: ruling party; Pre: president 1 Scale goes from 1, left, to 10, right 2 As there were two legislatures in the period, the punctuations are the mean of parliamentarians answers from both Source: Observatorio de Élites Parlamentarias de América Latina Regardless of the ruling party s and the president s ideologies, the votes of the 17 Latin American countries tend to present a 24.8% convergence with those of the United States. This estimate is possible from the constant of the model, which measures the mean effect of other factors on vote coincidence. The sum of the 24.8% index with the 5.48% explained by both ideologies results in a value almost the same as the coincidence mean for the group of 17 countries in the entire period considered, which was 33.1%. Table 4 Regression analysis results Variable Coefficient Standard t-ratio p-value error Ruling party s ideology President s ideology Constant < Number of observations 323 Source: Own calculations

13 13 4. Conclusions The expectation that left-wing governments are hostile to the United States and that right-wing governments are friendly has been partially confirmed. The ruling party s ideology has not shown statistically significant to explain the attitude of the group of Latin American countries toward the United States. However, the president s ideology, the other independent variable tested, is significant at the 10% level. Both factors taken together explain 5.48% of the vote coincidence with the United States in the UN General Assembly. From the three elaborated models, aggregate, fixed effects and random effects, the president s ideology was statistically significant in the first and the latter, at the 10% and 5% level, respectively. Despite the result being more significant in the random effect model, the aggregate model was prioritized, once the tests performed to compare the three models have proven it to be the most adequate. The correlation found between the president s ideology and the vote coincidence with the United States has the expected direction, that is, the more right-wing is a Latin American country s Head of State in terms of ideology, the higher their government s convergence with the United States at the UN. Results corroborate the evaluation about the importance of the president in the foreign policy of presidentialist systems, mainly in Latin American countries, where, in most cases, the Head of State relies on relatively strong constitutional powers (SHUGART AND MAINWARING, 2002). Even in the case of presidents with fewer prerogatives on policy and law formulation, there is the possibility of exerting influence via partisan powers, which depend on the president s leadership in his political party or coalition with legislative majority. Finally, the results obtained indicate the need to perform more studies, considering a more extended period, in order to verify whether the president s ideology can be maintained as an explanatory factor of the attitude of Latin American countries toward the United States and with the influence in the same direction found in this paper, that is, the more right-wing, the higher the convergence with the United States.

14 14 5. References ALCÁNTARA, Manuel and RlVAS, Cristina. Las dimensiones de la polarización partidista en América Latina. Política y Gobierno, v. 14, n. 2, p , AMORIM NETO, Octavio. De Dutra a Lula: a condução e os determinantes da política externa brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier, COLOMER, Josep M. and ESCATEL, Luis E. La dimensión izquierda y derecha en América Latina. Desarrollo Económico, v. 44, n. 177, p , COPPEDGE, Michael J. The dynamic diversity of Latin American party systems. Party Politics, v. 4, n. 4, p , LIJPHART, Arend. The analysis of bloc voting in the General Assembly: a critique and a proposal. American Political Science Review, v. 57, n. 4, p , MAIR, Peter. Party system change. Approaches and interpretations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, RIBEIRO, Pedro Feliú. Legislativo e política comercial: a aprovação do TLC com os Estados Unidos nos legislativos sul-americanos. Revista de Sociologia e Política, v. 20, n. 44, p , SANI, Giacomo and SARTORI, Giovanni. Polarization, fragmentation and competition in Western democracies. In Daalder, Hans e Mair, Peter (eds.). Western European party systems: continuity and change. Londres: Sage, 1983, p SHUGART, Matthew S. and MAINWARING, Scott. Presidencialismo y democracia en América Latina: revisión de los términos del debate. In Mainwaring, Scott and Shugart, Matthew S. (eds.). Presidencialismo y democracia en América Latina. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2002, p THACKER, Strom C. The high politics of IMF lending. World Politics, v. 52, n. 1, p , TOMLIN, Brian W. Measurement validation: lessons from the use and misuse of UN General Assembly roll-call votes. International Organization, v. 39, n. 1, p , VOETEN, Erik. Clashes in the Assembly. International Organization, v. 54, n. 2, p , 2000.

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