Party formation costs and the variation in the number of political parties in Argentine provinces

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46468/18531970.13.1.N2

Keywords:

Political parties, provinces, affiliates, district parties, fragmentation

Abstract

Argentina has a comparatively high number of registered parties, the highest number in Latin America. This is usually stressed as a problem for the political system, both in terms of representativeness and of governance. However, little attention has been paid to the territorial heterogeneity of this phenomenon. There have also been no serious attempts to identify its causes. This article aims to contribute to fill this gap. The article starts by identifying a wide inter-district heterogeneity regarding the number of registered parties. Its main finding is that the different party registration legal requirements established by different provinces is the variable that best addresses this heterogeneity.

Downloads

Published

2019-05-27

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019): Vol. 13 Núm. 1 (2019): Revista SAAP - Volumen 13 Número 1

Section

Research notes

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Danilo Degiustti, Gerardo Scherlis

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

It is a condition for publication that the author or authors assign the reproduction rights to the journal, as well as the right to be the first place of publication of the article.

Articles published by Revista SAAP are distributed under a License CREATIVE COMMONS 4.0 ATRIBUCIÓN-NO COMERCIAL-COMPARTIRIGUAL INTERNACIONAL(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that allows third parties to use what is published, as long as the authorship of the article and the first publication in this journal is mentioned. Authors retain copyright.

Authors should carefully consider the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors' names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the Director of the journal.

In case of allegations of scientific misconduct or conflict of interest, authors should send a letter to the Director of the journal explaining the case to REVISTA@SAAP.ORG.AR.