Thirty-five years after Stroessner

Multicracy in Paraguay

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4501345
AutoresMichael Shterenshis (0000-0003-0687-4369, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume52
Fascículo3
Páginas25-43
Data de publicação2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x251327411
OpenAlexW4408623564
IdiomaEN
Referências 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