Political parties in Latin American democracies

Abstract

If any political element most decisively characterizes the democratic life of modern States, it is none other than political parties. Parties are at the center of the transformations and the internal dynamics of political power in its variants of representation, identity and legitimacy. Political science has recently been strengthened by cutting-edge work on the subject, those that, due to their great explanatory content, are considered true theoretical models, because although they have been designed to account for the functioning of parties in classical liberal democracies, they survive. and they continue to influence due to their heuristic potential and are taken into account as useful analysis tools.