Humberto Guzmán, Víctor and Sgró Ruata, Candelaria
Subjects
*PARLIAMENTARY practice, *CITIZENSHIP, *DEMOCRACY, *POLITICAL participation, ARGENTINE politics & government
Abstract
This article analyzes the Argentinan parliamentary opposition in legal reform debates between 2009 and 2010, that searched to extend rights concerning to communicative and sexual citizenship in that country. From analysis of interventions in the Congress' voting sessions, the paper proposes two categories to describe strategies of displacement of the parliamentary opposition: displacements by procedures flaws and displacements by political feuds. Both categories group discursive operations that question the democratic institutions based on external factors, displace the object of legislative debate and seek the annulment of parliamentary debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
*POPULISM, *DEMOCRATIZATION, *CITIZENSHIP, *DEMOCRACY, *TWENTY-first century, *TWENTIETH century, ARGENTINE politics & government
Abstract
This paper examines the concerns which have led to the new wave of studies on populism in Argentina, focusing more on the debate surrounding the establishment of a new institutional framework typical of the 1980s than on the proliferation of 21st-century popular governments in South America. The typical characteristics and problems encountered in these studies are explained, and the defining features of the populist experience in 20th-century Argentina are analyzed by drawing comparisons with other populist processes in the region. Finally, the paper analyzes how certain features persist in the new political order, while others have gone through complete transformations since it was established in 1983. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]