Evolución de la competencia partidista hondureña. De la baja polarización ideológica a la radicalización

  1. Patricia Otero Felipe 1
  2. Cecilia Graciela Rodríguez Balmaceda 1
  3. Juan Antonio Rodríguez Zepeda 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Burgos
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    Universidad de Burgos

    Burgos, España

    ROR https://ror.org/049da5t36

Journal:
Revista Mexicana de Análisis Político y Administración Pública

ISSN: 2007-4425

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 12

Issue: 24

Pages: 101-137

Type: Article

DOI: 10.15174/REMAP.V12I24.410 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This article addresses the role of ideology in the dynamics of Honduran party competition from 1994 to the present. For this purpose, we carried out an analysis of the structure of the ideological competition in Honduras’ party system. We used survey data on ideological self-placement of this country’s legislators and their perception of the parties’ positions on the left- right dimension. The analysis shows a transformation of a party system where, for decades, electoral competition was characterized by its low level of ideological polarization towards a more polarized system. These results allow us to verify the important changes produced in the structure of the Honduran party system since the 2013 general elections. Afterwards, the competitiveness and fragmentation of the party system increased significantly.

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