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DUQUE DAZA, Javier. Partidos divididos, dirigencia fragmentada: Los partidos Liberal y Conservador colombianos 1974-2006. Convergencia [online]. 2006, vol.13, n.41, pp.173-209. ISSN 2448-5799.

In the present study the Liberal and Conservative Colombians parties during 1974-2006, are analyzed, its internal divisions, the nature of these divisions and the fragmentation of the partisan leadership. The central point here, are the factors that allow to explain the increasing partisan division as, on one hand, the national leadership's incapability to handle the regional leaderships by efficient means to take control over the internal actors of the parties and, on the other hand, the internal dynamics about clientelism. The institutional changes that appeared in the country at the end of the eighties accentuated this characteristic into the parties. With the political reform of2003, the new dynamics in the emergence of new parties are generated by splits and regroupings, and the weakening of the traditional parties.

Palavras-chave : parties; factions; leaderships; institutional change.