The Strength of Democracy in Argentina and Where it Stands Today

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  • Wallihan, Jake
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
Abstract
  • The topic of this paper is the democratic transition of Argentina from authoritarianism to democracy in the 1990s. I will be using Latin America scholar Kenneth Roberts’ framework on Latin American dual transitions outlined in the book, Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World1. Specifically, I will argue that of Roberts’ three types of democratic transitions— Institutionalized Pluralism (IP), Hegemonic Popular Sovereignty (HPS), and Oligarchic Restoration (OR)—Argentina’s transition throughout the 1990s and early 2000s best falls into the category of Hegemonic Popular Sovereignty. I will organize my argument into three sections: contestation and participation, presence of a left-right axis, and careening. Then, I will shift focus to modern-day Argentina and argue that HPS no longer applies to the country, analyzing the country under the same three dimensions.
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  • The Journal of Foreign Affairs at Carolina
Journal volume
  • 8
Journal issue
  • 2
Page start
  • 26
Page end
  • 33
Language
  • English

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