EL PERÚ Y LAS FALACIAS DEL "NEOPOPULISMO.".

In this article, Aldo Olano stresses that modern day Peru has to be understood as the result of different circumstances where historical and political aspects coincide with different development models and changes within society. The main idea of this paper is that the recurrent lack of governance in Peru is the result of an anti institutional culture but not necessary an anti state one. It is argued that this is also the result of strict social orders that are politically exclusive regardless of modernizing liberal and protectionist projects that date to the last century. The article questions some of the paradigms based on which development programs were implemented and consequently it establishes that current day Peru is the result of a mismatch between the ideological and the institutional. As such, the lack of governance and the preeminence of populist practices is the final result of three inconclusive projects: a military reform government (1968 - 1975), a democratic liberal one (1980-1990, 20002006) and the paternalistic authoritarian (1992-2000). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]