A Difficult Transition to Democracy

Corradi, Juan E.

doi:10.3817/0388075141

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“…For this reason, democratic processes and procedures in Latin America are far from being defined or from having fully asserted themselves, or they have run into problems, insofar as they are immersed in adverse socioeconomic conditions; hence, their present regimes have been called "difficult democracies," "democracies in transition," or "fragile democracies." See, for example, Sidicaro (1985), Corradi (1988), Huneeus (1986), Whitehead (1989). 7.…”

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Party Government in Latin America: Theoretical Guidelines for an Empirical Analysis

Cansino¹

1995

International Political Science Review

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The hypothesis of this article is that in Latin America government parties do not dominate the policy-making process, unlike in some European countries. Only some countries of the region have developed coherent programs and the institutional forms needed for the party-government role to be fulfilled as occurs in the European model. This factor maintains a direct relationship with the many existing difficulties preventing young Latin American democracies from consolidating. To prove this hypothesis, the article suggests an analytical methodology allowing the degree of influence of political parties on the policy-making process to be measured.

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