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Este análisis del pasado y presente de la política comparada en los Estados Unidos esta organizado en torno a tres temas: la definición de la materia de estudio de este campo de la ciencia política, el rol de la teoría y el uso de métodos. Estos tres temas son la base para la identificación de los distintos períodos en la historia de la política comparada y para una evaluación su estado actual. Además se presta atención al vínculo entre la política comparada y la ciencia política y otros campos de las ciencias sociales, así como a eventos políticos y los valores implicados en el campo de la política comparada. ; This analysis of the past and present of comparative politics in the United States is organized around three issues: the definition of the field's subject matter, the role of theory, and the use of methods. These three issues are the basis for an identification of distinct periods in the history of comparative politics and for assessments of the state of the field. Attention is also given to the link between comparative politics, on the one hand, and other fields of political science and other social sciences, on the other hand, and, more briefly, to political events and the values held by scholars of comparative politics.

Politics in Latin America continued to be about democracy after the democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s. An old concern –securing the minimal standard of democracy that had served as the goal of democratic transitions –remained relevant. But a new concern –the attainment of more than a minimal democracy– transformed politics about democracy. Actors who supported and opposed neoliberalism –the key axis of ideological conflict– advocated and resisted political changes in the name of different models of democracy. And the conflict over which model of democracy would prevail shaped Latin America's post-transition trajectories, determining how democracy developed and, in turn, whether democracy endured.

Con el propósito de enmarcar el debate sobre la medición de la democracia, se analizan en este artículo varias prácticas comunes que los expertos utilizan en la producción de indicadores e índices. Varios de los especialistas dedicados a la medición de la democracia han fallado y no han abordado cuestiones centrales dentro de éste ámbito de estudio, existiendo aún muchos retos por superarse. Un debate sobre estas cuestiones y retos es visto como crucial para el progreso futuro de la medición de la democracia y para la cristalización de mayores consensos acerca de como debería procederse. ; With the purpose of framing the debate about the measurement of democracy, common practices in the production of indicators and indices of democracy are analyzed. The producers of many frequently used measures of democracy are seen as having failed to adequately address key issues in the measurement of democracy, and many unresolved challenges are identified. A debate about these issues and challenges is seen as crucial to future progress on the measurement of democracy and the crystallization of greater consensus about how democracy should be measured.