(Give us this interesting article in a Mexican) Alvaro Cepeda Neri
strictly theoretical analysis politics, as in newspaper pages (much less in the speech of those who are politicians or presume), little or no make the difference between representative democracy relies on intermediaries through elections to elect those representatives, with respect to direct democracy is that citizens exercise demonstrations, protests and riots (now exemplified in the Arab rebellion) and, at times, very long run, can lead to revolutions. These are scarce, because the conservative political liberalism (as the preacher Vargas Llosa), and economic, flat condemns mob violence, calling for some rationality to raise the issue peacefully social problems.
My point is that the indirect or representative democracy is so worn out by excessive institutions, whose bodies process the political demands of justice (the documentary Presumed Guilty displays the rottenness of the courts) and they do get citizens are processes very slow in the public administration of the three powers, that only rush to the corruption of bribery and puts more money is who is favored by the failures. As the bulk of the representation, which originates in the voting, it is clear that the parties assembled in the most brazen pragmatism, no longer have a connection with that go to the polls.
The latest studies on the subject (eg the book edited by Montero, Gunther, and the exceptionally bright Juan J. Linz: Political parties, old concepts and new challenges, published by Editorial Trotta), make us aware of this detachment between representation and parties and believes that "would be immersed in an inexorable process of decline." But there is no way round them out, except with the formula too risky "citizen candidates", through which some characters accept the nomination, mentioning that there are active in any party.
is clear that parties are only to be disputed election elected positions (in the executive and legislative) to immediately after the day of the polls, consummated the divorce between representation and indirect democracy. Mexicans live that fatigue, despair and disillusionment against the parties and increasingly abstention, for a minority of votes for candidates representing representation decreased exercise questionable. This allows the emergence of politicians against the real fake, posted by parties who seek only a few votes, and this has generated "the relaxation of party discipline, the expansion of television (for popularity) and the various coalitions for a new and sometimes picturesque town, which fosters the emergence of political upstarts and unprofessional populist temptations against professional politicians. " Cepedaneri@prodigy.net.mx
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