Traditions in conflict: the Peruvian Parliament and the construction of the University Law of 1983
Abstract
Under what premises and which actors built 1983’s University Law No. 23373, that remained in force for more than thirty years in Peru? This article answers these questions and shows, among other things, the disputes that arose over the role of the State in the field of university education. The construction of this law represented an important milestone in the process of transformations that began between 1950 and 1960, which produced the decline of public universities and the favorable positioning of private universities, a trend that was consolidated in the following decades. These disputes particularly involved senators and deputies, in a context marked by the strength of political parties in terms of representation; but the article also includes the role played by student organizations and teacher unions, with the intention of showing the links between Parliament and society. These actors discussed autonomy, gratuitousness, and student participation in university government, under the perspectives of two competing traditions on state interference in these matters.
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