Abstract

BIDERBOST, Pablo. THE CIVIL VOTE IN TIMES OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION. PERU AND VENEZUELA IN COMPARED PERSPECTIVA. Pap.polit. [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.1, pp.13-38. ISSN 0122-4409.

In the decade of the ‘ 90, in the Latin-American space, the application of neo liberal policies happens. They were placing in so called "Consensus of Washington". The implementation of this new set of measurements had for object assure the stability and the growth of the economy and proceed to the deregulation of the activity of the diverse private agents. The State, according to the enunciated mechanisms, had to retire its former subsidiary role, protectionist and benefactor who had characterized it till then. Of way parallel to the attainment of the stabilization of the economy and to the reversion of a chronic process of decrease of the Internal Brute Product, it is observed, in Latin America, an enormous increase of two of the most important indicators of social exclusion: the poverty and the unemployment. To this respect, the object of this work is to investigate, comparatively, with regard to the electoral behavior in moments in which is observed an increase of the indexes of poverty and unemployment in Peru and Venezuela, states in which it happens, of simultaneous way, a des-institutionalization of its traditional system of political parties.

Keywords : civil vote; structural adjustment; poverty; unemployment; party system; Perú; Venezuela.

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