¿Crisis o transición? Caracterizaciones intelectuales. Del dualismo argentino en la apertura democrática

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the conceptual organization of the "democratic transition" model, through which an important sector of social scientists represented the military dictatorship crisis in Argentina in 1982, and interpreted its advent and ending, to guide the society towards its definitive democratization. This model was based on ideas and conceptual structures produced and used in the Argentine society to describe and to interpret the political process. We will explain that the notion of "crisis" was replaced for the democratic transition model; this paradigm was made according to the classic frames of Argentine thinking, and for this reason it was not only an interpretative frame to the inauguration of a new era and the final overcoming of the democratic instability, but also a perspective on political past and the causes of “authoritarianism”.