Prácticas iliberales y antidemocráticas a nivel subnacional: enfoques comparados

Behrend, Jacqueline; Whitehead, Laurence

doi:10.7440/colombiaint91.2017.01

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“…Behrend [13] qualifies the concept of Subnational Authoritarianism by pointing out that political, economic, and media domination by a group of families in a given region does not imply authoritarian behavior, attributing it to what he calls closed games. Later, this same author would refer to "illiberal structures and practices" through which democracy is obstructed in certain territories, although in the case of media outlets, it is recognized that these organizations generate fake news and even create a threatening environment [14].…”

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Pluralism of News and Social Plurality in the Colombian Local Media

Rodríguez-Navas

Lalinde

2021

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Information on the management of local administrations and the actions of the political leaders who govern them is essential for citizens to exercise their political rights. It is therefore necessary for these administrations to provide quality information that the media can use as sources for their news stories. At the same time, these media outlets have to compare and report while taking into account the plurality of their audiences. However, in local settings, collusion exists between political power and media owners that restricts the plurality of news, favoring the dominant political interests and hiding the demands, interests and protagonism of other social actors. We study this problem in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. We analyze the information that the town halls of the main cities in the region provide to the media and how the largest print newspapers and main regional television news broadcasters report on local politics. We compare these news stories to establish whether there is a plurality of news reports. In addition, we analyze the key elements of the news items disseminated by private media outlets to establish whether they report a limited vision of reality: the topics covered, the protagonists referred to in headlines and news stories, and the sources against which the news and images are compared. The results reveal shortcomings that result in similar information between public information and private media content, thus limiting the plurality of news reports and the social protagonism of other social agents. Ultimately, this hinders quality journalism that satisfies the interests of citizens.

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Pluralism of News and Social Plurality in the Colombian Local Media

Rodríguez-Navas

Lalinde

2021

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“…These same authors state that these illiberal practices and structures constitute a series of local collective agreements that can be traced over time, are territorially long-lasting, and concentrate an amount of accumulated power that leads a large group of actors not to comply with the rules of the democratic game. They also do not operate in an isolated manner, which guarantees greater capacity to resist or adapt (Behrend & Whitehead, 2017).…”

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Thirty years of illiberal democracy in Guanajuato

Sánchez‐Gutiérrez

López

2021

Latin American Policy

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Guanajuato was the second state in Mexico to have political alternation, in 1991. Additionally, it was one of the first states in which there was political alternation at the municipal level, in the 1980s. Since then, alternation at that level of government is frequent. Even though this situation might lead us to think of Guanajuato as a state that has been democratically consolidated over the last 30 years, we find illiberal structures and practices that have been repeated over time and that have come to damage the democratic exercise in the state. This article describes each of the illiberal practices and structures, using data and a case study.

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“…According to Behrend and Whitehead (2017), "The concept illiberal subnational structures and practices allows us to understand how some provincial political systems can remain below the democratic standards prevailing in the rest of the country and challenge national democracy without becoming authoritarian regimes themselves" (p. 23). The authors point out that these practices and structures restrict the full implementation of existing political rights and freedoms in the country and are characterized by being durable over time.…”

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“…In fact, some of the elements that can be identified as illegal structures and practices belong to the emergence of informal arrangements, de facto situations, or cultural practices that reduce the possibility of the full exercise of citizenship. For an in-depth discussion, see Behrend and Whitehead (2017).…”

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Continuities and transformations in the democratization process of the political system in Nuevo Leon

Castillo

Vásquez

2021

Latin American Policy

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This article aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses of democracy in Nuevo León, using as a theoretical framework the concept of illiberal structures and practices at the subnational level. First, we describe the sociodemographic characteristics of Nuevo León. Next, we summarize the democratization process in the state. Third, we analyze the evolution of the electoral competition in the state-the law; election results for governors, Congress, and municipalities; and the role of justice in state elections. Fourth, the article considers whether some nonpolitical actors such as economic elites, organized crime, or gender-based violence influence the democratic process. The fuzzy borders between political and economic elites are the most relevant weakness of democratization in Nuevo León. The cooptation of the public decisionmaking process by the business elite may be an illiberal structure or practice in the state.

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Prácticas iliberales y antidemocráticas a nivel subnacional: enfoques comparados

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Pluralism of News and Social Plurality in the Colombian Local Media

Pluralism of News and Social Plurality in the Colombian Local Media

Thirty years of illiberal democracy in Guanajuato

Continuities and transformations in the democratization process of the political system in Nuevo Leon

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