The Challenges of Argentine Democracy in the Bicentennial of the May Revolution

Abstract

In 1910 there was awareness that a cicle had conclude. It started a time of reforms and Argentina was a social and political laboratory. In this second centenary, in contrast to that atmosphere of ideas, there is absence of public debate about the course of the cuontry, its place in the world and how the third centenary is imagined. The exercise of power, based on a peculiar conception of the presidential mandate, the method to resolve the differences and the use of public goods shaped a plebiscitary democracy.