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Abstract

The first part of this paper has examined the dominant interpreta. tive literature on the Latin American political regimes - in the light of studies, analyses and essays upon the recent Argentinean and Brazilian political processes. There are several interpretative currents which accompany the route where both countries have suffered three great inflections: the establishment of a democratic political regime; a. profound transformation of the economic organizational state model and a relevant change in the public institutions. So, the validity of the interpretations of the present analytic current was discussed and a possible configuration of a new interpretative current was thought over. Now, in this second part, the author analyses the performance of the democratic institutions with regard to the economic and state changes, presents a brief comparative analysis about developed countries and, at last, outlines some general conclusions - in the light of the
discussion of the features of politics and the democratic institutions in Brazil and Argentina.