The "Normalization" of Argentine Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID6287616
AuthorsSteven Levitsky (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume11
Issue2
Pages56-69
Publication date2000-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2000.0040
OpenAlexW2087460639
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited9

On 24 October 1999, Fernando de la Rua of the opposition Alliance for Jobs, Justice, and Education was elected president of Argentina, defeating Eduardo Duhalde of the incumbent Justicialista (or Peronist) Party (PJ) by a margin of 49 percent to 38 percent. Former economics minister Domingo Cavallo, running on the center-right Action for the Republic party ticket, finished third with 10 percent. The election was unprecedented in several respects. De la Rua's assumption of the presidency marked the first time that Argentine democracy had survived two consecutive transfers of power from one party to another, as well as the first time that a Peronist had been removed from national office by democratic means. In addition, the new Alliance government, which is made up of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) and the center-left Front for a Country in Solidarity (FREPASO), is the first real coalition government in Argentina's modern democratic history

Alliance · Coalition government · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential system · Sociology · Solidarity · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration

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