This article analyzes the insertion in social movements and the profile of militants of the Chilean Broad Front at the time of its formation in 2017 using testimonies collected through 26 semi-structured interviews. The testimonies collected from Broad Front militants are contrasted with testimonies from militants of the Chilean Socialist and Commu...
Esta tesis tiene por objeto indagar el rol de las políticas sociales implementadas por los gobiernos del Frente Amplio (2005-2020) en Uruguay para atender las situaciones de vulnerabilidad. El análisis se realiza considerando distintos niveles. En primer lugar, desde una mirada socio histórica del Estado Social y del tratamiento de la pobreza se re...
This article develops a comparative analysis of a phenomenon present in parties as political organizations that acceded to the national government: the weakening of the internal accountability mechanisms of partisan leadership against affiliates. The cases selected in the study include the Brazilian Workers’ Party, the Uruguay’s Broad Front, Argent...
February 5th of 1971 took place in Uruguay the culmination of a long and zigzagging process; the constitution of the Broad Front, a space that managed to unify leftist parties, progressive sectors of traditional parties -National and Red- and independent. That new actor did rethink to the revolutionary left what to do about the parlmentary politica...
Resumen La relación entre los gobiernos de izquierda sudamericanos y los grandes grupos mediáticos nacionales a principios del siglo XXI se caracterizó por un enfrentamiento público. A diferencia de lo que sucedió en otros países, en Uruguay los gobiernos del Frente Amplio -de Tabaré Vázquez (2005-2010) y José Mujica (2010-2015)- lograron negociar ...
In Chile, a third political force has appeared: Frente Amplio, a new coalition that criticises neoliberalism. Since its emergence, various academic authors have analysed this uprising as well as warned about the coalition’s possible limitations in trying to imitate political theses distant to the Chilean political context. In this regard, this rese...
Uruguay has been characterized since 1985 as one of the most stable and consolidated democracies in Latin America, with a remarkable continuity of its main political parties. In this context, elections are pivotal moments for both the continuity of such characterization, and for possible alterations. This article reviews the electoral process of 20...
The role of parliaments in foreign policy, in any representative democracy, supposes a crucial dimension to explain the international insertion policy-making process. However, few studies in the Uruguayan academy are concerned with the parliamentary dimension of external relations. In order to fill in this gap, this article studies the Uruguayan pa...
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo describir las tensiones presentes en la política de comunicaciones seguida por el gobierno uruguayo en el período 2005-2015. En un comienzo se operacionaliza el concepto tensiones de política pública, luego se revisan los principales hitos en la materia durante esta década. La metodología se basa en un anális...
In 2005, the Encuentro Progresista- Frente Amplio, a coalition of left and center-left parties, reached the national government. Among its programmatic objectives was to generate a change in the orientation of public policies aimed at the agricultural sector, explicitly incorporating in them the promotion of rural development to improve the living ...
