Venezuela - Las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela: de una democracia representativa a un régimen autoritario electoral

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.739

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Issue: Vol. 14 (2006): (January-June)
Section Thematic Dossier


Keywords: Regime political change political parties opposition presidential elections 2006

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Miriam Kornblith

Abstract

From 1958 to the present, the Venezuelan political system has shifted from the representative democracy it was in the 1958–1998 period, to an authoritarian electoral regime from 1999 to 2006 under the presidency of Hugo Chávez. This change in the nature of the regime has had a significant and negative impact on the country’s electoral institutions and on its ‘institutionality’ since, unlike the recent past, elections in Venezuela are no longer a competition mechanism capable of reliably giving room to the expression of collective will and translating it into suitable representative frameworks. The paper examines these recent transformations undergone by the Venezuelan political system, their impact on the rules and conditions of the electoral contest, and the alternatives and challenges faced by both the government strongholds and the opposition vis-à-vis the coming December 2006 presidential elections in the midst of the new authoritarian regime’s electoral framework.

 

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Miriam Kornblith

Venezuela - Las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela: de una democracia representativa a un régimen autoritario electoral
How to Cite
Kornblith, M. (2010). Venezuela - Las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela: de una democracia representativa a un régimen autoritario electoral. Desafíos, 14, 115–152. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.739
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