Party system strength in the 80’s and the rise of anti-politics in the 90’s in Peru: a quantitative descriptive analysis of subnational level

• Autores: Ruiz, Gabriela, García, Sebastián, Mercado Córdova, Lucía, Vela, Estelí
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2013
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/13902
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/politai/article/view/13902
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: parties; party system; APRA; Acción Popular; Izquierda Unida; PPC; antipolitics; independent; outsiders; Alberto Fujimori; partidos; sistema de partidos; antipolítica; independiente

This paper explores two important topics among the political parties and party system literature in Peru: The strength and stability of the political party system in the 80’s and the decade of the 90’s, better known as the «decade of the antipolitics». The contrast between the literature reviewed and the quantitative data from the 7 Municipal Elections, that took place among this time period, attempts to find if this phenomena occurred also at the subnational level. In the decade of the 80’s, the political party system stayed stable with rule of the four most important political parties (APRA, Acción Popular, Izquierda Unida y PPC); however, individually these political parties did not have the same performance. In the decade of the 90’s, the concept «in- dependent» did not fit equally among all the cases and together with the fujimorismo depicted the political scenario of the 90’s.