Abstract

PINO, Juan Federico. Between democracies and authoritarianisms: a critical look upon the study of subnational democracy in Colombia and Latin America. colomb.int. [online]. 2017, n.91, pp.215-242. ISSN 0121-5612.  https://doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint91.2017.07.

This article submits a literature revision about the studies upon subnational democracy in Latin America and Colombia. Research of analytical trends undertaken within the last decades, are exposed. The identification of these trends was undertaken by gathering investigations upon compared politics according to the conceptual and methodological strategies; these are used to study subnational democracy as well as any typologies to characterize it, and the proposed theories to explain the variation of the subnational democracy. The supremacy of the study upon this topic in federal countries has created a federal bias shaping the way on how to study this topic in unitary countries. This encompasses that before using concepts and theories of this literature in unitary estates, it will be necessary to take into account the existing differences between these two types of estates.

Keywords : theories; political parties; Subnational democracy; conceptual typologies; political violence.

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