%0 Journal Article
%T Las primeras democracias en Hispanoam¨¦rica
%A Tovar
%A Jes¨²s
%J Pol¨ªtica y gobierno
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this article helps to demonstrate the conceptual disparity among some authors about democracy. despite sharing a procedural definition of democracy, they do not agree in how to fix the starting date of political regimes in hispano-american democracies between the end of the xix and the beginning of the xx centuries. for this reason, we propose a criterion to classify the democracies and we apply this to hispano-american countries during the first wave of democracy. we then make a comparative analysis of these early democracies. finally, we create an explanatory outline that permits us to identify independent variables of democratic advance in this region in this particular time.
%K democracy
%K first wave
%K competition
%K alternation
%K democratization
%K democratic breakdown
%K electoral reforms.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-20372009000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en