The Impossibility of Party Unity: Electoral Rules, Subnational Electoral Competition, and Fragmentation in the Peruvian Congress (2011-2019)

• In Event: Legislative Elections in Latin America: a Comparative Perspective from the Subnational Level

Brief Overview

This paper explores how electoral laws and the dynamics of subnational party competition produce rapid and constant divisions in the Peruvian Congress during two parliamentary periods with a considerable fragmentation of parliamentary groups.

Author

• Cristhian Jaramillo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú