Abstract

MIRANDA DELGADO, Rafael Gustavo. Right/Left Cleavage in the Postwar Central American Political Systems. A Comparative Historical Analysis. Latinoamérica [online]. 2023, n.76, pp.173-200.  Epub Mar 17, 2023. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2023.76.57531.

The aim of the research is to analyze the formation and contemporaneity of right/left cleavage in the Central American post-war political systems. The methodology to be used is the Comparative Historical Analysis (cha). The guiding hypothesis of the study is that the right/left cleavage, its constitution, and its contemporary expression, are fundamental to understanding political plurality and democratic quality in general in the postwar Central American political systems. The article states that in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, right/left cleavage has had difficulty expressing itself in a democratic manner. In the first instance, it was expressed in the war, to then have a divergent balance of successes and failures in the democratization of the actors.

Keywords : Central America; Programmatic pluralism; Right / left cleavage; Quality of democracy; Comparative Historical Analysis (CHA).