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In contemporary polyarchies, deliberation is a fundamental dimension of democratic process. In this regard, election debates between candidates on television fulfill a dual function. On the one hand, they provide light and direct information to the average citizen. On the other hand, they strengthen the ideological pluralism that all democratic systems should encourage.
But in Latin America, presidential debates are a practice which is still unevenly deployed, a fact attributable to the unfinished evolutionary state of its democratic systems.
