Late Institutionalisation and Early Modernisation

The Emergence of Uruguay's Liberal Democratic Political Order

Bibliographic Data

ID3602033
AuthorsFrancisco Panizza (0000-0002-3755-9209, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume29
Issue3
Pages667-691
Publication date1997-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x97004811
OpenAlexW2124142966
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The way in which ruling elites originally responded to pressures for increasing mass participation in the polity is one of the most crucial variables in the path to democracy. In the case of Uruguay, the first two decades of the century – a period dominated by the historical figure of José Batlle y Ordoñez, – were crucial in the setting up of democratic institutions. During this period, because of its late consolidation as much as its early modernisation, the institutionalisation of the political order coincided with its phase of democratic incorporation. This article argues that it was Batlle's strategy for advancing his political project, as much as the substantive aspects of the policies themselves, that would crystallise the working of Uruguay's democratic politics. While the article focuses mainly on Uruguay, a comparative analysis with similar historical developments in Argentina is used to illustrate some specific aspects of the Uruguayan case

Consolidation (business) · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Institutionalisation · Modernization theory · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Politics and Society in Latin America

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