This article focuses on party competition in Bolivia from a multilevel approach with department (intermediate level) as the territorial unit of analysis from 2005 to 2015. The objective is to demonstrate the (in)congruence of an institutional level overlooked by the literature on multilevel studies, for which two indices of measurement are used: Summary Measure of Congruence (Gibson and Suarez-Cao 2010) in a one version and Dissimilarity Index (Johnston 1980) in two versions, nationally aggregated and departmentally disaggregated, with voting data from all competing parties (DISa) and only from those with double competition (DISb). The argument handled is that if an institutional level is important enough to be introduced to the electoral framework of a country, it should also be important enough for academic interest, especially in their relation with the rest of the system. Fro...

La designación de las más altas magistraturas judiciales mediante elecciones populares encuentra en Bolivia un hecho inédito en el mundo. Las Elecciones Judiciales 2024 representan la tercera experiencia del país, luego de los comicios de 2011 y 2017, aunque en un contexto nacional significativamente diferente. Este artículo tiene el objetivo de analizar el proceso electoral desarrollado en diciembre de 2024, tanto en su organización como en sus resultados. El trabajo argumenta que esta tercera experiencia de elecciones judiciales sí fue “la vencida” en cuanto al comportamiento electoral; sin embargo, no lo fue en lo relativo a la selección de candidaturas ni a la organización del proceso. Esta paradoja se explica por las características específicas de un contexto marcado en particular por mayor pluralismo político en la Asamblea Legislativa, disputas internas y faccional...

El presente trabajo aborda lo concerniente a las últimas elecciones subnacionales en Bolivia desde una perspectiva descriptiva del diseño institucional y los resultados de la representación política. El análisis, que se inicia con un breve repaso de los sistemas electorales que rigen para la competencia subnacional, se completa con la contrastación entre las votaciones válidas para autoridades ejecutivas y las legislativas, así como los niveles de fragmentación parlamentaria de cada unidad territorial. Los resultados empujan a prestar atención a fenómenos y dinámicas que problematizan algunas nociones de los sistemas electorales, a entender y analizar la democracia a partir de la competencia electoral subnacional.

This article focuses on party competition in Bolivia from a multilevel approach with department (intermediate level) as the territorial unit of analysis from 2005 to 2015. The objective is to demonstrate the (in)congruence of an institutional level overlooked by the literature on multilevel studies, for which two indices of measurement are used: Summary Measure of Congruence (Gibson and Suarez-Cao 2010) in a one version and Dissimilarity Index (Johnston 1980) in two versions, nationally aggregated and departmentally disaggregated, with voting data from all competing parties (DISa) and only from those with double competition (DISb). The argument handled is that if an institutional level is important enough to be introduced to the electoral framework of a country, it should also be important enough for academic interest, especially in their relation with the rest of the system. Fro...

This article focuses on party competition in Bolivia from a multilevel approach with department (intermediate level) as the territorial unit of analysis from 2005 to 2015. The objective is to demonstrate the (in)congruence of an institutional level overlooked by the literature on multilevel studies, for which two indices of measurement are used: Summary Measure of Congruence (Gibson and Suarez-Cao 2010) in a one version and Dissimilarity Index (Johnston 1980) in two versions, nationally aggregated and departmentally disaggregated, with voting data from all competing parties (DISa) and only from those with double competition (DISb). The argument handled is that if an institutional level is important enough to be introduced to the electoral framework of a country, it should also be important enough for academic interest, especially in their relation with the rest of the system. Fro...