Las fugas de la democracia. Análisis económico del derecho sobre las normas de transfuguismo político en Colombia (2003- 2011)

Abstract

The article presents an economic analysis of the rules regulating changes of political party affiliation in Colombia. In developing a basic analysis of incentives, the authors conclude that double electoral militancy is a direct, predictable result of the present legal framework in which the rules are unable to deter party-switching behavior among actors in the political system. The result is a democratic game that, given the ever-increasing distrust of the institutions, gradually turns to other scenarios of democratic action such as judicial activism and social movements.

Keywords

• Changes of political party affiliation
• double militancy
• economic analysis of law
• party system
• democracy
• Colombia