Aporías e interfases en los estudios de la democratización: análisis del régimen versus estudios culturales

Abstract

Regime analyses and cultural studies are exclusionary approaches to the study of democratizacion but they present thematic interfaces on theoretical and historical problems. Such are the issues of clientelism and of the normative concept of democracy, the relevant sociopolitical actors, the level and unit of analysis, etc., which both approaches face diferently. This article reviews these differences, and maintains that they reveal the internal limitations and unsolved theoretical problems (aporiae) of both approaches, as challenges for further research in the area