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Institutional crisis in the PLRA because of the Convention

By Ed­uardo Nakayama* Last Sun­day, Au­gust 6, 2023, the Ex­tra­or­di­nary Con­ven­tion of the PLRA was held, in which six points were to be con­sid­ered in the agenda. How­ever, a ma­jor­ity of Con­ven­tion mem­bers went fur­ther and re­solved, when the Con­ven­tion was al­ready a... More »

Party indiscipline as a democratic problem

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. The role played by po­lit­i­cal par­ties in con­tem­po­rary democ­ra­cies is fun­da­men­tal. They are key play­ers be­cause they ful­fill var­i­ous tasks that, as a whole, serve to make the po­lit­i­cal sys­tem op­er­a­tive. The is­sue is that some of their mult... 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 »

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 »

The crisis of Paraguayan democracy: the legitimacy of results (II)

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia In a re­cent ar­ti­cle, we re­cov­ered the ar­gu­ment of Pierre Rosan­val­lon who ex­am­ined the prin­ci­ples of le­git­i­macy of de­mo­c­ra­tic gov­ern­ments. Ac­cord­ing to the French so­ci­ol­o­gist, through­out the twen­ti­eth cen­tury a de­mo­c­ra­tic sys­tem of dual le... 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 »