Desafección institucional e historia democrática en las nuevas democracias

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Keywords:

Political disaffection, institutional disaffection, new democracies, political institutions, democratic history

Abstract

This a comparative study of institutional disaffection, one of the dimensions of political disaffection, in new democracies. The aggregate levels of institutional disaffection do not reveal a well-defined third-wave cluster of countries; although on average institutional disaffection is higher among new democracies. This is so because institutional disaffection is not the product of the recent non-democratic experiences that gave the way to the third wave, but the result of decades of democratic history. Past democratic history not only explains different levels of institutional disaffection, but also the distinctive nature of institutional disaffection in new democracies.

Published

2006-08-26