La influencia del diseño institucional del sistema electoral en el grado de pluralismo político de El Salvador y Guatemala durante el posconflicto

Abstract

This research work aims to explain the effects that certain arrangements of the institutional design of the electoral system had in the cases of El Salvador and Guatemala within the Congress in two specifc periods. The frst took place in the nineties during the transition democracy and the second moment is situated in the decade of the two thousand when the democracies in El Salvador and Guatemala experienced the post confict stage in order to determine its infuence within the accentuation of the degree of political pluralism. The design of the research will have a mixed methodology so that the institutional arrangements of the electoral system will be analyzed and their relationship with the degree of political pluralism of the party system