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The Nature of the New Argentine Democracy. The Delegative Democracy Argument Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

ENRIQUE PERUZZOTTI
ENRIQUE PERUZZOTTI
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and Government, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
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Abstract

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O'Donnell's diagnosis regarding the delegative nature of the new Latin American democracies has won wide acceptance in current debates on institutional consolidation. Through the analysis of the Argentine case this commentary challenges the delegative democracy argument as one-sided. The delegativeness hypothesis, it will be argued, turns a blind eye to the truly innovative processes that have taken place within Argentine society and make this democratising wave distinctive.

Type
COMMENTARY
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 133 - 155
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

Previous versions of this paper were presented at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London; the Latin American Centre, Oxford University, and at the Latin American Luncheon Seminar, Cornell University. The author is grateful to the participants of those meetings for their helpful comments and criticisms.