Democracy in Uruguay: recent history and challenges

Abstract

This article presents a synthetic view about the most important transformations that Uruguayan society has undergone in the last decade. It aims at articulating, through Political History and Political Science approaches, the recent political process with the itineraries of the economy and the society. It pretends in particular to argue that Uruguayan democracy is mutating, its actors and institutions are changing, with the help of both global and local transformations. K

Keywords

• democracia uruguaya
• ciclos electorales
• reforma política
• instituciones democráticas.