Argentine Elections: the Second Half of the 19th Century

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How were these elections? How was representation conceived? Who had the right to vote, who were excluded? How should we understand the use of fraud and the appeal to violence? In the decades that followed the overthrow of Rosas in 1852, Argentina experienced great political transformations. Liberalism, federalism and constitutionalism were central to the substrate of beliefs that inspired the political leadership of those years, functioning as a…