Open AccessThe Impact of Constitutional Replacements on the Quality of Democracy in Latin America
Author(s) -
Orestas Strauka
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
politologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.13
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2424-6034
pISSN - 1392-1681
DOI - 10.15388/polit.2020.99.4
Subject(s) - democracy , constitutionalism , qualitative comparative analysis , latin americans , quality (philosophy) , inversion (geology) , political science , law and economics , law , mathematics , sociology , politics , statistics , philosophy , epistemology , biology , paleontology , structural basin
The article aims to evaluate whether and how constitutional replacements influence the quality of democracy in Latin American countries. The fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method is applied while analysing 18 Latin American countries. The objective of the article- nine new constitutions that are assigned to the new constitutionalism period. The results reveal that constitutional replacements are neither sufficient nor necessary condition for quality of democracy. On the contrary, the parsimonious solution shows that quality of democracy can be explained by both high levels of education and inversion of constitutional replacements and inversion of constitutional replacements, institutionalised party system and non-homogeneous society. Inversion of quality of democracy analysis indicated that constitutional replacements, together with other conditions, form sufficient conditions for inversion of quality of democracy.