Análise comparativa dos modelos institucionais de governança eleitoral nas Américas.

Abstract

There is a wide variety of electoral governance institutional arrangements in democratic systems throughout the world. This research plans to describe and compare the models of electoral governance within 19 countries of the American continent nowadays (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay), analyzing the six dimensions of electoral governance and the institutional designs of rule making. Therefore, in this regard, what are the models and how is electoral governance structured in the democracies of the American continent today? Through a bibliographic review of the subject, the electoral institutional structure of the countries in question is pointed out. It describes a formal conceptual approach on democracy, the role of elections in democracy, theoretical concepts on electoral governance, as well as the analysis and comparison of the electoral governance models in the American countries in the present time, starting from the conceptual premises addressed.