%0 Article %A Zovatto, Daniel %I Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica %D 2007 %T Las instituciones de la democracia directa a nivel nacional en América Latina: Un balance comparativo: 1978-2007 %U http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=3988151 %X The article describes a comparative study of direct democracy institutions in 18 Latin American countries. It analyses how these institutions are incorporated, mostly in the 90's as one of the answers to the representation crisis of party system and as a result of increasing displeasure with regional politics. It determines how far these institutions of direct democracy have arrived to remain and which ones have been their main effects in relation to the problems they try to respond.