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Peru 2012: Trapped by history?

  • Carlos Meléndez
  • , Paolo Sosa Villagarcía
  • University of Notre Dame
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

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Abstract

Peruvian political dynamics has often been characterized as an enduring continuity. The political and economic regimes, as well as the factors that conditioned them, show a stable pattern: governability as the result of a low-intensity equilibrium based on weak Executives and oppositions that lack linkages with social movements. Therefore, different governments -pro-establishment or reformist-, including current Ollanta Humala's, got "trapped by History". An "automatic pilot" mode is privileged in the administration of efficient (economy, international relations) and inefficient sectors (public security). However, recent institutional changes (focused on the technocracy of social programs) can be seen as indicators of a more popular version of this model of governability.
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)325-350
Number of pages26
JournalRevista de Ciencia Politica
Volume33
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

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