PRESIDENTIALISM AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA

Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America, after the independence of countries in the region, held in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, has been under constant criticism because of its view as a system of government without the necessary balance and independence of state powers. The authoritarian government carried out by the executive branch, sometimes exercised by armed action or of questionable legitimacy of the election process which is personified as a populist leader holds a wide range of state power, which has led to a discrediting of the system of the presidential government implemented on the continent, as well as the recognition of a democratic deficit. It is, therefore, on this political process, rooted in the impact of the concentration of power in a limited range of the population that we expect to make a brief analysis about the factors that lead the region to this form of exercise of power.