Electoral legislation and party systems: the Uruguayan case
Keywords:
electoral legislation, political party systems, Duverger, Sartori, KatzAbstract
The article studies the effects of electoral legislation on the Uruguayan party system. The mechanisms examined are Duverger's "law" - in Sartori's reformulation - on the favorable effect of bipartisanship on simple majority systems, and Katz's rule on the fractionalizing consequences of intraparty preferential voting. In relation to the party system itself, the article concludes that it was a bipartisan system during most of the first fifty years of Uruguayan democracy, and that during the last twenty years it has been transformed into a multiparty system of moderate pluralism with four relevant actors - in the terms of Sartori-. Currently the party system continues to change, although the direction of that change is still unclear. The major parties of the system have always been fractionalized, particularly in the 1960s. In relation to the "tendency laws" of Duverger-Sartori and Katz it is concluded that during those first fifty years the Uruguay was a perfect illustration of its validity. It is still too early to know if this will continue to be true at the end of the current transition period.
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Cocchi, Angel, ed. (1988): Reforma electoral y voluntad política. Montevideo: FESUR Ediciones de la Banda Oriental.
Crewe, Ivor (1987): "What's Lefa for Labor. An Analysis of Thatcher's Victory," Puhlic Opinion 10:2.
Dahl, Ron (1971): Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yate University Press.
Franco, Rolando, ed. (1986): El Sistema Electoral/ Uruguayo: Peculiaridades y Perspectivas (2 vols.). Montevideo: FWldaci6n Hanns Seidel.
Gillespie, Charles (1987): "Party Strategies and Redemocratization: TheoreticaI and Comparative Perspectives on the Uruguayan Case," Tesis de Doctorado, Yate University.
González, Ariosto (1922): los partidos tradicionales. Montevideo: Librería Cervantes.
González, Luis E. (1988): "Political Structures and the Prospects for Democracy in Uruguay," Tesis de Doctorado, Yale University. Una versión revisada se publicará en 1990-91 como Political Structures and Democracy in Uruguay en University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Indiana).
Grofman, Bemard, y Arend Lijphart, eds. (1986): Electoral laws and Their Political Consequences. New York: Agathon Press.
Gros Espiell, Héctor (1956): Las Constituciones del Uruguay. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispánica
Jacob, Raúl (1983): El Uruguay de Terra. Montevideo· Ediciones de la Banda Oriental. ·
Kirchheimer, Ouo (1966): "The Transformation of the Western European Party Systems," en LaPalombara y Weiner, eds., Political Porties ..., op. cit.
Katz, Richard.S. (1986): "Intraparty Preference Voting," en Grofman y Lijphart, eds., Electoral Laws..., op. cit
LaPalombara, Joseph (1974): Politics Wilhin Nations.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
LaPalombara, Jose y Myron Weiner, eds. (1966): Political Parties and Political Development. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Limdahl, Goran G. (1962): Uruguay's New Path. Stockholm: Llbrary and Institute of lbero-American Studies.
Linz, Ju J. (1978): The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Brealcdown, Reequilibration. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Lipse, S7our M. (1977): ..American Exceptiona
Martínez Lamas, Julio (1946): Riqueza y Pobreza del Uruguay, 2a edición. Montevideo: Tipografía Atlántida.
McDonald, Ronald H. (1978): ..Party Fractions and Modernization: A Comparative Analysis of Colombia and Uruguay," en Frank Belloni y Dennis Beller, eds., Fraction Polilics: Political Parties
Melián Lafinur, Luis (1918): La acción funesta de los partidos tradicionales en la reforma constitucional. Montevideo: Claudio García.
Nohlen, Dieter (1981): Sistemas electorales del mundo. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales.
Nohlen, Dieter, y Juan Rial, eds. (1986): Reforma electoral: ¿Posible, deseable?. Montevideo: FESUR Ediciones de la Banda Oriental.
Pérez Pérez, Alberto (1970): LA Ley de Lemas. Montevideo: Fundaci6n de Cultura Universitaria.
Rae, Douglas W. (1971): The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Real de Azúa, Carlos (1971): "Política, poder y partidos en el Uruguay de hoy," en Luis Benvenuto et al., Uruguay hoy. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.
Reyes Abadie, Washington (1989): Historia del Partido Nacional. Montevideo: Ediciones de la Banda Oriental.
Rial, Juan (1984): Partidos Politicos, Democracia y Autoritarismo. Montevideo: Ediciones de Ja Banda Oriental.
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Solari, Aido (1986): ..El Sistema de Partidos y Régimen Electoral en el Uruguay," in Franco, ed., El Sistema Electoral ..., op.ciL
Taylor, Philip B., Ir. (1960): Government and Politics of Uruguay. New Orleans: Tulane Studies in Political Science, Tulane University.
Vanger, Milton I. (1980): The Model Country: José Batlle y Ordoñez of Uruguay, 1907-1915. Hanover, New Harnpshire: Brandeis University Press.
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Vemazza, Francisco (1987): "El sistema electoral uruguayo y el descenso de la representatividad de los diputados: 1925-1984,"Montevideo, Tesis de Licenciatura.
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Electoral legislation and party systems: the Uruguayan case. (2018). Revista Uruguaya De Ciencia Política, 4, 9-27. https://rucp.cienciassociales.edu.uy/index.php/rucp/article/view/274
