Working Paper No.30
Peru's Failed Search for Political Stability
Marķa Emma Wills (with the assistance of Marķa Teresa Pinto)
IEPRI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
June 2003
This paper aims at understanding Peru's recent political trajectory, and more
specifically its failure at democratic consolidation. How can it be that a
country that twenty years ago had probably better chances than most of the
Southern Cone Latin American countries to embark on a successful democratic
transition, underwent from 1992 onwards an involution that culminated by the
year 2000 in a political debacle? How did the Peruvian democratic regime, born
of a relatively inclusive constitutional pact, turn twelve years later into an
authoritarian one-man show?
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