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Founded in 1891, the Unión Cívica Radical, generally known as the Radical Party, is the oldest national political party in Argentina. As a central component of Argentina's political history, the Radical Party has received much attention from historians. However, most accounts have concentrated on the period after 1916, when the party won its first presidential election; the formative years of the party have generally been ignored. Yet as the strongest opposition party during the 1890s, a pivotal decade in the birth of Argentina's party system, the Radical Party effected a critical development in Argentine politics: it created a system of open confrontation and political competition. This study offers not merely a revised version of the party's story but also a new perspective on the nature of the Radical Party and of the politics of the nation as a whole

Siguiendo la convocatoria a celebrar los cuarenta años desde la publicaciónde la obra clásica de Natalio Botana, El orden conservador. La política argentina entre 1880 y 1916, el presente trabajo ofrece una reflexión sobre el potencial analítico y temático de los partidos políticos como panóptico para estudiar la política durante estos años. En lugar de un ejercicio historiográfico, el análisis toma como punto de partida mis propias investigaciones y recorre el lugar que dicho foco ha tenido en el campo de la historia política. Además de analizar su impacto, estas páginas también se detienen sobre algunas cuestionesque requieren de una mayor exploración, e invitan a considerar ciertos aspectos metodológicos y temáticos a ser contemplados en futuras agendas de investigación.

Fil: Alonso, Paula. University of San Andrés. Department of Humanities; Argentina. ; Fil: Alonso, Paula. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Humanidades; Argentina.

Fil: Alonso, Paula. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Humanidades; Argentina.

Three main political parties regularly contested elections in Argentina in the late nineteenth century: the Partido Autonomista Nacional (PAN), the Unión Cívica Nacional (UCN), and the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR). However, little is known about the nature of party competition, the contesting parties' electoral performances or the characteristics of their electoral support. Discussion of the electoral politics prior to 1912, when the vote became secret and compulsory for all Argentine males over 18 years of age, has been dominated by notions of corruption, repression and lack of opportunity for popular participation. While in other countries such assessments have been revised in recent years after unreformed elections were analysed in more detail, accounts of electoral repression are still dominant in discussions of the pre-1912 Argintine electoral system.