%0 Journal Article %T Los senderos del estudio sobre los partidos pol¨ªticos y su derrotero en Am¨¦rica Latina %A Lucca %A Juan Bautista %J Revista Pilquen %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this essay aims to describe the different methods of analysis of political parties as key institutions of contemporary political democracy, using the latin american experiences as a stage to portray the different facets of the analysis. this essay will study the origin, form, historicity and change of political parties in (and from) latin america. %K political parties %K model of party %K historicity of political parties %K latin american. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-31232010000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en