Thirty-five years after Stroessner

Multicracy in Paraguay

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4501345
AutoresMichael Shterenshis (0000-0003-0687-4369, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen52
Número3
Páginas25-43
Fecha de publicación2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x251327411
OpenAlexW4408623564
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas40

The literature on Paraguay's political regime labels it as an incomplete or flawed democracy without systematically analyzing how Paraguay is actually governed. The concept of multicracy can describe Paraguay's political organization and analyze Stroessner's rule and the post-Stronato period. The governability of Paraguay's democracy is weak, various kratiae (powers) intervene in policymaking, and the state's regime is an unstable multicracy consisting of the presidential autocracy, the Congress partocracy, democratic institutions, plutocracy, inefficient bureaucracy, theocracy, technocracy, and still-in-power aristocracy. Further political development suggests a redistribution of power between the kratiae by changing their power percentage within a power pie

Political science · African Studies and Ethnography · International Development and Aid · Political Conflict and Governance