Back سياسة الأرجنتين Arabic Gobiernu y política d'Arxentina AST Държавно устройство на Аржентина Bulgarian Gwleidyddiaeth yr Ariannin Welsh Politisches System Argentiniens German Gobierno y política de la República Argentina Spanish سیاست در آرژانتین Persian Politique en Argentine French פוליטיקה של ארגנטינה HE არგენტინის პოლიტიკური სისტემა Georgian
 | This article needs to be updated. (December 2016) |
Politics of Argentina | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Polity type | Federal presidential representative republic |
| Constitution | Constitution of Argentina |
| Legislative branch | |
| Name | National Congress |
| Type | Bicameral |
| Meeting place | Palace of the Argentine National Congress |
| Upper house | |
| Name | Senate |
| Presiding officer | Victoria Villarruel, Vice President of Argentina & President of the Senate |
| Lower house | |
| Name | Chamber of Deputies |
| Presiding officer | Martín Menem |
| Executive branch | |
| Head of state and government | |
| Title | President |
| Currently | Javier Milei |
| Cabinet | |
| Current cabinet | Ministries of the Argentine Republic |
| Headquarters | Casa Rosada |
| Ministries | 10 |
| Judicial branch | |
| Name | Judiciary of Argentina |
| Supreme Court | |
| Chief judge | Horacio Rosatti |
|
|---|
 Argentina portal |
The politics of Argentina take place in the framework of what the Constitution defines as a federal presidential representative democratic republic, where the President of Argentina is both Head of State and Head of Government. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Argentine National Congress. The Judiciary is independent, as are the Executive and the Legislature. Elections take place regularly on a multi-party system.
In the 20th century, Argentina experienced significant political turmoil and democratic reversals.[1][2][3] Between 1930 and 1976, the armed forces overthrew six governments in Argentina;[2] and the country alternated periods of democracy (1912–1930, 1946–1955, and 1973–1976) with periods of restricted democracy and military rule.[1]
Following a transition that began in 1983,[4] full-scale democracy in Argentina was reestablished.[1][2] Argentina's democracy endured through the 2001–02 crisis and to the present day; it is regarded as more robust than both its pre-1983 predecessors and other democracies in Latin America.[2]
- ^ a b c Robinson, James; Acemoglu, Daron (2006). Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–8.
- ^ a b c d Levitsky, Steven; Murillo, María Victoria (2005). "Introduction". In Levitsky, Steven; Murillo, María Victoria (eds.). Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. Penn State University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 0271046341.
- ^ García Holgado, Benjamín; Mainwaring, Scott (2023). "Why Democracy Survives Presidential Encroachments: Argentina Since 1983". Comparative Politics. 55 (4): 525–548. doi:10.5129/001041523X16729343375086.
- ^ Anderson, Leslie E. (2016). Democratization by Institutions: Argentina's Transition Years in Comparative Perspective. University of Michigan Press. p. 15.