The 1990 Peruvian runoff pitted an elite against a mass candidate.
Evidence
After a decade of relatively democratic civilian government threatened by mounting civil war, Alan García’s presidential term ended in 1990. Voters sought change. Out of a large field of candidates emerged two who survived to the runoff: novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and mathematician Alberto Fujimori, rector of Peru’s National Agrarian University. Internationally famous Vargas Llosa aligned with the Peruvian elite, while Fujimori identified himself with the masses; his immigrant parents, after all, had been school caretakers. Fujimori opposed Vargas Llosa’s free-market program and pledged to resist International Monetary Fund demands for belt-tightening. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 53
Categorization
- QUESTION: Tilly opens with Peru 1989-2003 as his orienting case; worth tracking how this apparent elite-vs-mass framing gets translated into his regime-capacity/democracy matrix vocabulary.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 53
- XREF: connects to: Elite contempt for populist challengers backfired into their electoral triumph. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 95
Broader Connections
- Elite contempt for populist challengers backfired into their electoral triumph.
#exemplifies(0.82) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 95