Los partidos políticos en América Latina

Resumen

The principal argument of this article is to show that the parties and the Latin American party system are more stable of which in general term usually it is maintained. In spite of the electorate hostile perception about the parties, the party system presents some level of stability in Latin America, with the exception of Venezuela and Peru. A four-dimension tipology is realizated to compare the partidist offer in the fundational post-transition election and in the last legislative election in each system. The three characteristics of the party system in the final of the Twentieth Century are analysed: the numeric format of the party system (which tends to multipartidism); the ideological polarization level (high) and its social support (which depends on a serie of indicators).