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Universidad Central de Venezuela
2003
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- Venezuela in the gray zone: From feckless pluralism to dominant power system David J. Myers Jennifer L. McCoy Política Democracy Venezuela Legitimacy Political regime Political culture This paper emphasizes the need to measure the varying qualities of democracy. It delineates subtypes of political regimes that occupy a “gray zone” between dictatorship and democracy, and examines the possibilities for political change in the “gray zone”. The authors address two sets of questions about political change: a) What causes a limitedly pluralist regime to unravel? b) How can we predict which direction political change will take in the wake of that unraveling? The options considered are: re-equilibration of the limitedly pluralist regime, evolution into a liberal democracy, movement toward another regime variant within the gray zone, and retrogression to authoritarianism? Demise of Venezuela’s Punto Fijo regime and the emergence of Hugo Chávez’s Fifth Republic are examined using this framework. Analysis suggests that mutually reinforcing crises in the issue areas of distribution and representation lead to political decay, and that unraveling occurs if the state’s regulative capability is weak. Transition to full democracy may take place if the ruling elites retain a quotient of legitimacy. If not, some alternative form of “gray zone” regime takes hold, its form dependent on the strength of the existing democratic political culture and on the availability of an individual possessing charismatic authority. 2003 artículo científico 0303-9757 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=170033588002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1700 Politeia application/pdf Universidad Central de Venezuela Politeia (República Bolivariana de Venezuela) Num.30