Democracy in the Inter-American System: A Look into the Inter-American Democratic Charter Sixteen Years after its Adoption

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the application of some articles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, especially those contained in Chapter IV of that instrument entitled “Strengthening and preserving democratic institutions.” Although the Charter is not the only document that aims to p...

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Autor: Negro Alvarado, Dante Mauricio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20393
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechoysociedad/article/view/20393
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Organization of American States
Inter-American System
Representative Democracy
Inter-American Democratic Charter
Democratic political institutional process
Legitimate exercise of power
Democratic order
Organización de los Estados Americanos
Sistema Interamericano
Democracia Representativa
Carta Democrática Interamericana
Proceso político institucional democrático
Legítimo ejercicio del poder
Orden democrático
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Sumario:The purpose of this paper is to analyze the application of some articles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, especially those contained in Chapter IV of that instrument entitled “Strengthening and preserving democratic institutions.” Although the Charter is not the only document that aims to promote and defend representative democracy within the framework of the OAS, it is perhaps the most important one and, at least, the one that has been applied extensively in the region in the last sixteen years. We will mainly address the various situations that must be configured for the application of the Charter and the competencies of the various actors and organs of the Organization in relation to it, all of them within the scope of that chapter IV.