Resumen

AREVALO, Julián; ANGARITA TOVAR, Gabriel  y  JIMENEZ HERNANDEZ, Wilber. Electoral Reforms and Ideological Coherence of Colombian Political Parties, 1986-2013. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2013, vol.58, n.218, pp.233-270. ISSN 0185-1918.

This article sets out changes which the Colombian party system experienced throughout the last two decades. It focuses on the topics, ideology and party divisions present in a representative sample of the last four legislatures' congress members. This study is based on factorial and discriminate analyses, making use of the Latin American Parliamentarian Elites database. This article holds that the 2003 political reform had a positive effect on Colombian parties' and social movements' ideological coherence within Congress. Electoral reforms are also discussed in the light of these findings.

Palabras llave : electoral reform; party system; ideological coherence; political reform.