Manuel Alcántara Sáez

Partidos políticos na América Latina

The principal argument of this article is to show that the parties and the Latin American party system are more stable of which in general term usually it is maintained. In spite of the electorate hostile perception about the parties, the party system presents some level of stability in Latin America, with the exception of Venezuela and Peru. A four-dimension tipology compares the party offer in the fundational post-transition election and in the last legislative election in each system.

Ideología y competencia partidaria en dos post-transiciones: Chile y Uruguay en perspectiva comparada

This paper presents a first attempt to compare the ideological profiles of Chilean and Uruguayan parties in order to describe the patterns of party-competition that characterize both systems. Drawing on survey responses offered by legislators and on the basis of a factor analysis strategy we construct three crossnational ideological axes: authoritarian-democratic, state-market, religious/conservative-secular/liberal, on which each party is then positioned. Through the analysis of standard deviations we also seek to measure the internal coherence of parties. Although we find that both party systems are ideologically well structured -at least at the elite level-, we also find that the salience of each axis and the patterns of partisan competition vary significantly across systems in a way that is predictable through a path-dependent analysis of their long-term characteristics and transitional legacies.

La ideología de los partidos políticos chilenos, 1994-2002: Rasgos constantes y peculiaridades

Resumen El presente trabajo describe la evolucion de las percepciones y opiniones de diputados chilenos con respecto a cinco grandes cuestiones que articulan de diferente manera la vida politica partidista del pais. Se trata de su ideologia, su posicion respecto de la democracia, del papel de las Fuerzas Armadas, de ciertas politicas publicas y de la organizacion interna partidista.