From neoliberal euphoria to electoral defeat:

the Cambiemos years in Argentina

Abstract

In recent years Argentina has undergone a resounding change of political and economic course under the Alianza Cambiemos with a program aligned to neoliberal precepts and based on a political ideological matrix that articulated the new and old forms of the political right in the country. The article attempts to analyze the economic and political changes that occurred throughout the government of the Alianza Cambiemos in Argentina in the period 2015-2019. The articulations between economy and politics are studied here in order to understand the cycle that went from a moment of euphoria of the dominant sectors with the political project of the government alliance to a stage of economic crisis and a resounding electoral defeat. To this end, the article works both on a quantitative methodology and on the analysis of the discourse of the main business actors and key public officials to account for the aforementioned articulations.