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    When the Business Sector Enters Party Politics: Conservative Mobilisation and Strategic Use of Threats
    (SAGE Publishing, 2026) Gabriel Vommaro; Laura Wills-Otero
    Why do business actors sometimes move beyond indirect influence and engage directly in party politics? This article examines the conditions under which economic elites adopt what we term a “party solution”: direct involvement in conservative parties through candidacies, organisational roles, and access to government. Drawing on a comparative analysis of Argentina and Colombia, it argues that this strategy is more likely when a sustained perception of threat to core economic interests converges with the availability of a conservative partisan vehicle capable of incorporating business actors. The analysis relies on process tracing based on press coverage, in-depth interviews, and legislative evidence. It examines Propuesta Republicana in Argentina and Centro Democrático in Colombia. In Argentina, business mobilisation responded to direct policy interventions by left-wing governments; in Colombia, it was driven by a forward-looking institutional threat. In both cases, business actors initially relied on conventional influence strategies before accepting visible engagement.