The quality of democracy in Paraguay: progress on winding roads

Within the framework of growing concern for analyzing the quality of young democracies, this article focuses on the Paraguayan case. A democracy sometimes neglected by the academic literature. However, Paraguay is drawing attention as a consequence of Colorado’s Party defeat (in office since 1947) i...

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Autores principales: BARREDA, Mikel; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, BOU, Marc; Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2011
Materias:
quality of democracy; political institutions; political participation; accountability; responsiveness; Rule of Law; Paraguay
calidad de la democracia; instituciones políticas; participación política; rendición de cuentas; responsiveness; Estado de Derecho; Paraguay
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/7789
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article7789oai
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topic quality of democracy; political institutions; political participation; accountability; responsiveness; Rule of Law; Paraguay
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spellingShingle quality of democracy; political institutions; political participation; accountability; responsiveness; Rule of Law; Paraguay
calidad de la democracia; instituciones políticas; participación política; rendición de cuentas; responsiveness; Estado de Derecho; Paraguay
BARREDA, Mikel; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
BOU, Marc; Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya
The quality of democracy in Paraguay: progress on winding roads
topic_facet quality of democracy; political institutions; political participation; accountability; responsiveness; Rule of Law; Paraguay
calidad de la democracia; instituciones políticas; participación política; rendición de cuentas; responsiveness; Estado de Derecho; Paraguay
description Within the framework of growing concern for analyzing the quality of young democracies, this article focuses on the Paraguayan case. A democracy sometimes neglected by the academic literature. However, Paraguay is drawing attention as a consequence of Colorado’s Party defeat (in office since 1947) in the 2008 presidential election. A theoretical and methodological thinking about the concept of the quality of democracy together with an empirical research have been done in this article. Five essential dimensions have been taken into consideration: political rights and civil liberties; rule of law; accountability; responsiveness and political participation. The main conclusion is that Paraguay has a low quality democracy, far away from the rest of Latin American countries. This statement is backed up by three different explanations that are, at the same time, interlinked. These are the following: socioeconomic factors, features of its own political institutions (above all, the widespread clientelism) and, finally, political parties’ interests and strategies.
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author BARREDA, Mikel; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
BOU, Marc; Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya
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BOU, Marc; Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya
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title The quality of democracy in Paraguay: progress on winding roads
title_short The quality of democracy in Paraguay: progress on winding roads
title_full The quality of democracy in Paraguay: progress on winding roads
title_fullStr The quality of democracy in Paraguay: progress on winding roads
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