Presidentialism and Peruvian politics

Abstract

This document, the result of a research on presidentialism and Peruvian politics, proposes that at the apex of our politics, authoritarian archaisms of various signs and sequels are reproduced, at the behest of the omnipotent power that is threaded around the legal and subjective scope of our presidential democracy. Power increased on the basis of a weak democratic and republican institutionality, in search of the "savior leader" and the interested submission of joint powers. Thus, the presidential course is removed from the legal channels to border the worrisome limits of authoritarianism. This position can be replicated by more than one subnational political authority. For this reason, we have set ourselves the objective of establishing the influence of presidentialism on Peruvian politics, as well as on subnational political authorities. The methodology assumes the rigor of the scientific method and its historical-qualitative variant. For their part, the results confirm the thesis of Juan Linz, which considers presidentialism as less favorable than parliamentarism for democratic purposes. The first one requires effective institutional, political and legal stability. We conclude that our politics yield negative balances, because the entrenched verticality, now presidential, tends to stagnate them, to distort citizenship and to deform our institutions.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31876/sl.v2i1.46