Description
The study aims to compare different expert indexes regarding the measurement of democracy. The main objective is to determine the convergence or divergence among the indexes, to assess if the interpretation of the same political phenomena can find differences depending on the index used. To this end, the Latin American region is going to be used for this analysis, emphasising the 21st century period. This allows for a comparison of presidential countries, which by definition have fixed mandates for the Heads of Government. Nonetheless, several countries in that region faced constitutional or unconstitutional changes of government, as consequence or cause of social and political instability. These episodes were tipping points that affected the political culture of the region. The research gives particular attention to these episodes, observing how this has been measured as impacts in the democratic performance.
