Transition modes and institutional outcomes in El Salvador and Guatemala

Abstract

Institutions affect key dimensions of the political process -policy, stability, and conflict. The choice of institutions is thus consequential. I argue that transition modes affect the choice of institutions in predictable and systematic ways. The more balanced power is between the two main bargaining forces -regime elite and opposition- the likelier that the resulting institutions will be pluralistic. Contrarily, the more unbalanced power is in favour of regime elites vis a vis the opposition, the likelier that institutions will be majoritarian. The argument is tested for El Salvador and Guatemala.

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English

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Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya)

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