Patagonia in transition: the 83’ and three decades of electoral democracy.

Abstract

The Patagonian policy has received increased attention in the last decade. Overall, the story of parties’s systems in the region is of interest. This is one of the objects of the article, considering 1983 as the starting point of a complex and long lasting process. Indeed the PJ has been one of the preeminent power in the region, having been government in all provinces except Neuquén, although the neo-Peronist origin of MPN makes part of the Peronist family. Instead radicalism, predominant in Rio Negro, was far from accessing the governments of Santa Cruz and Neuquén. In addition, three of the five districts of the region works with a type of imperfect bipartisanship, common to what occurs in one third of the country's provinces. These features among many others, started in the political dynamics of the eighties and now form part of a balance of three decades of electoral democracy without breaks but with many differences.