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Argentina facing the configuration of a new electoral map

By Lorena Soler* On Sun­day, Au­gust 13, 2023, the si­mul­ta­ne­ous and com­pul­sory open pri­mary elec­tions (PASO) were held in Ar­gentina. This elec­toral en­gi­neer­ing was cre­ated by the then Pres­i­dent Cristina Fer­nán­dez in 2009 for the se­lec­tion of can­di­dates of the po... More »

Ecuador: A Generous Land for Political Science

By Juan Fran­cisco Camino.* In re­cent weeks, Ecuador has cap­tured the at­ten­tion of in­ter­na­tional me­dia, re­gional politi­cians and, of course, so­cial sci­en­tists, es­pe­cially those ded­i­cated to the un­der ex­plored and mis­un­der­stood po­lit­i­cal sci­ence. More »

Poll war 2023: first round

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. The polls have started to be pub­lished and with them the con­tro­ver­sies. Just as Ter­eré Cóm­plice pub­lished sev­eral ar­ti­cles about them dur­ing the last elec­toral cy­cle, we will put the mag­ni­fy­ing glass on them again. More »


The judicialization of politics and the fall of Mario Ferreiro

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. Through­out the 20th cen­tury, the heads of Latin Amer­i­can ex­ec­u­tive pow­ers fell mainly be­cause of mil­i­tary in­ter­ven­tions. Af­ter the third wave of de­moc­ra­ti­za­tion, which be­gan four decades ago, the early fall of pres­i­dents con­tin­ued to occ... More »

Does greater youth participation favor the opposition?

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola In the pre­vi­ous is­sue we had dis­cussed the sup­posed lack of in­ter­est of young peo­ple (peo­ple be­tween 18 and 29 years old) in par­tic­i­pat­ing in elec­toral elec­tions. Mak­ing some pop­u­la­tion ad­just­ments in the es­ti­ma­tion of elec­toral par­tic­i­pati... More »


On the “invincibility” of Efraín Alegre

By Javier Las­salle. The Na­tional Con­cer­ta­tion “For a New Paraguay” suf­fered some schisms when the pres­i­den­tial pre-can­di­da­tures were made of­fi­cial. Cruzada Na­cional de Paraguayo Cubas and part of Frente Guasu with­drew from it and will go to the gen­eral elec­tio... More »

Do young people vote less? Yes, but…

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola The low vot­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion of young peo­ple un­der 30 is fre­quently men­tioned as one of the rea­sons why elec­toral re­sults al­ways end up fa­vor­ing party struc­tures. In this hy­poth­e­sis, it is stated -al­most mys­ti­cally- that if young peo­ple wer... More »

The crisis of Paraguayan democracy: popular legitimacy (I)

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia There is a cer­tain con­sen­sus in the aca­d­e­mic world that some­thing is hap­pen­ing to democ­ra­cies in all lat­i­tudes. Dif­fer­ent au­thors, from dif­fer­ent ar­eas of the so­cial sci­ences, have been warn­ing about a cri­sis of democ­racy, whether in term... More »

Multiple voting is not a risk for the primaries

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola On July 8, the Su­pe­rior Court of Elec­toral Jus­tice (TSJE) fi­nally aknowl­edged the Na­tional Con­cer­ta­tion. In the same act, it also re­solved the con­tro­versy over the use of the Per­ma­nent Civic Reg­istry (RCP) for the for­ma­tion of the elec­toral... More »