Crisis de gobernabilidad y la región Andina: un análisis de economía política

Abstract

"The Andean region of Latin America is experiencing governance and economic difficulties that compound its structural problems of poverty, slow growth and social inequality. Governance problems are manifested through a high frequency of political crisis, high turnover of authorities, weak institutions and fragility of democracy. An analytical framework is proposed that focuses on: i) the content and stability of political and constitutional regimes,ii) the quality of institutions, iii) social inequality, and ethnic diversity. The focus of the paper is mainly on how to characterize governance patterns rather than on providing a detailed analysis of the channels through which governance conditions affect economic growth. The empirical analysis of the paper combines long run evidence on the frequency of constitutional reform, presidential crisis, and political regimes of the Andean region in the 20 th century along with more recent subjective indicators of governance and institutional quality in the 1990s and early 2000s."