The Relationship between the political elite and democracy:: rethinking the role of radicalism in democratic stability

• Autor(a) principal: de Castro, Rodrigo Enrich
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Debates
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/debates/article/view/126519

In recent decades, several analyzes have pointed out the role of the political elite inLatin America, with emphasis on the works of Linz and Stepan (1978) and O’Donnelland Schmitter (1986). In the 21st century, Mainwaring and Pérez-Liñán (2013) resumed theperspective of the previous authors about the importance of understanding howthe attitudes of the political elite can help to strengthen a democratic regime ortake it to a break. The work of O'Donnell and Schmitter (1986) is a studycomparative study focused specifically on transitions from authoritarian regimes tosome other type of regime, such a transition can be either the establishment of ademocracy as a way of restoring another type of authoritarian regime(O'DONNELL and SCHMITTER, 1986). The work advances the debate on the role of the elite by goingin addition to the importance of the role of the opposition, as it also highlights how disputesbetween the hard-liners and the soft-liners of the different regimes influenced the processesof “transition”, “liberalization” and “democratization”.