Implement the internal politics of Argentina during the civil wars

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A short review of the three broad political trends during the Argentine Civil wars. This will be translated into political parties for the pre-Argentina tags (ARC, ENT, CRT, SBD), which is the first step of rigging the decision/event framework of dynamic politics.

For each political current, the most important things are the attributes in bold:

• the tags in which the current is present or not
• the key voter issue
• the in-game party ideology
• the lock-in effect if that current is in power (i.e. things that the player cannot move out of)

Their importance lies in the fact that they direct the playthrough and inform player agency. For instance if ENT allows free elections and the player shapes the electorate to care about free trade, the Unitarians might end up in power.

The other attributes are not as important yet but will matter for future work. (E.g. diplomatic decisions and events to set-up the War of the Triple Alliance.) They're listed here to keep track of everything. (Deadlines were first mentioned in #3.)

the Rosistas

name & parties	Los Rosistas
tags	ARC, ENT, CRT
key voter issue	jingoism
ideology	reactionary
lock-in effect	centralization reform: confederalism
expiration dates	decline before or before the soft deadline disappear by the final deadline, possibly succeeded by Nacionalismo (ARC, ARG)
party policies	trade protectionism economic state capitalism religious moralism citizenship limited war jingoism social no official policy
allies abroad	none
government button	Suma del poder público (sum of public power) switch to presidential dictatorship
domestic buttons	(ARC) install the Sociedad Popular Restauradora suppress political opposition

This is the political status quo at the start of the game: a repressive dictatorship under Rosas, nominally federalist yet doing little towards federation. The lack of elections, what with being a dictatorship, means that the Confederation (but probably not the other tags) needs buttons to influence political direction. Brutal political repression is in fact how Rosas maintained power, too.

A tough hurdle is that Rosas’ rules had many elements of populism, which is something that (imho) Victoria 2 is not very good at modelling. There is no good key voter issue to fit the bill that I can think of. In any case the idea is to pick anything but a trade policy (more on this below), for which jingoism is a decent last resort.

the Federalists

name & parties	Los Federales ARC & ARG Partido Federal
tags	ARC, ENT, CRT, SBD
key voter issue	protectionism
ideology	conservative
lock-in effect	centralization reform: federalism
expiration dates	match historical dates for party creation, splits, etc.
party policies	trade protectionism economic interventionism religious moralism citizenship limited war pro military social no official policy
allies abroad	the Empire of Brazil Uruguay under the Colorados
government buttons	proclaim the 1853 constitution form federal Argentina head of federation against a vassal federal intervention
domestic buttons	Conquest of the Desert Conquest of the Chaco challenge the Buenos Aires customs

The federalists who ousted Rosas in 1853 to finally move towards a federal republic. One end of the federalist–unitarian opposition, reflected by picking the protectionism trade policy as the key voter issue.

the Unitarians

name & parties	Los Unitarios ARC & ARG Partido Unitario
tags	ENT, CRT, SBD
key voter issue	free trade
ideology	liberal
lock-in effect	centralization reform: unitary
expiration dates	match historical dates for party creation, splits, etc.
party policies	trade free trade economic laissez-faire religious pluralism citizenship residency war pro military social no official policy
allies abroad	pro-trade European GPs (historically: UK & France)
government buttons	form unitary Argentina
domestic buttons	Sarmiento’s education reforms Conquest of the Desert Conquest of the Chaco assert the Buenos Aires customs promote European immigration

The main targets of the brutal repression under Rosas’ rule. The other end of the federalist– unitarian opposition, justifying free trade as the key issue opposite to that of the Federales.

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The social policy cannot work as a voter issue because it's not implemented for pops, so the Rosistas rely on Jingoism instead. (I also did some editorial clean-up.)

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Ruled out the button to switch back to a presidential dictatorship. After discussion the rule of Rosas will be modelled by the uninterrupted presidential dictatorship. ARG becoming a republic through any means implies that Rosas passes away, flees the country, or otherwise stands down.

As a consequence extending the vote franchise becomes an additional pop issue to model opposition to the Rosas régime. (In terms of game mechanics desire for political reform is biased towards liberal ideology.)