ABSTRACT
Scholars have repeatedly affirmed that over the past two decades the Argentine political party system has experienced a process of progressive denationalization. In this study we extend this line of scholarly inquiry by examining not only the pattern of partisan competition in Argentine congressional elections over the past decade, but also, and most importantly, the linkage between this progressive electoral denationalization and partisan alignments within the Argentine Congress. Through our focus on how parties interact in the electoral and legislative arenas, we highlight the profound implications of this process of denationalization of party politics for democratic representation in Argentina as well as underscore the manner in which the increasing levels of territorial fragmentation have distorted representational linkage mechanisms in the country more broadly.
