Documentos América Latina; 26

Since the process of democratic transition commenced by Peru in 1980, the country has had seven constitutional governments, the only break in democracy being Fujimori’s 1992 coup. What is unusual about these two decades is two key events: the crisis of the party system and the change in the economic model. This study attempts to answer this question of how the interdependence between political, economic and social factors has influenced the governability of Peru’s political system during the period 1980-2001? The processes of regional integration, the internationalisation of the States, the territorial configuration of power, the geostrategic and environmental factors are all elements that cast doubt upon the idea of the single causality of political phenomena. The particularity of a multicultural reality suggests that the political culture also influences countries' governability. Locked in a climate of manifest ungovernability, or a crisis of governability, in which social demands cannot be satisfied owing to governments’ inability, democracy will remain in a permanent situation of checkmate and continuous unease.

ISSN: 1697-7688 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8137 (online edition)

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