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 »
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 »
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 »
By Juan Francisco Camino* The elections of local government authorities (mayors, councilors, council members, among others), of councilors of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control, and the referendum proposed by the Ecuadorian government, hel... More »
By Héctor Fariña* Is it important to support compulsory voting? First, the answer is simple and forceful: yes, it is. For several reasons. Compulsory voting is mentioned in Article 118 of our Constitution, which establishes suffrage as a right, duty, and publi... More »
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 »
By Marcos Pérez Talia It is not controversial to say that the PLRA is the most important party of the Concertación. Its history, its number of members and voters, and its vast party structure made up of parliamentarians, governors, mayors, and councilmen throu... More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »