From Crisis to Collapse of the Party Systems and Dilemmas of Democratic Representation: Peru and Venezuela
From Crisis to Collapse of the Party Systems and Dilemmas of Democratic Representation: Peru and Venezuela
This chapter examines the role of the party systems collapse on the crisis of democratic representation in Peru and Venezuela. It explains that Alberto Fujimori and Hugo Chávez dismantled the preexisting political order through institutional reforms and established competitive authoritarian regimes in which democratic representation was replaced by plebiscitarian mechanisms of legitimation. This chapter also highlights the challenges for the countries in rebuilding state institutions with weakened political and social actors and in constructing a new system of democratic representation that is pluralistic and participatory.
Keywords: party systems, democratic representation, Peru, Venezuela, Alberto Fujimori, Hugo Chávez, authoritarian regimes, political order, institutional reforms, state institutions
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