¿Se está incrementando la brecha entre representantes y representados? Una reflexión a propósito de El poder político en España

Juan Rodríguez Teruel

doi:10.22325/fes/res.2019.17

Authors

Juan Rodríguez Teruel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2019.17

Keywords:

political elites, representation, power, decentralization, parliament

Abstract

The thesis of the crisis of representation postulates the decline and transformation of political parties and some traditional institutions as instruments of intermediation between society and the state. This approach affects the way in which citizens and parliamentarians themselves conceive and exercise political representation. However, as political power in Spain illustrates, the multilevel dimension is essential for understanding the representative function and the elite-mass link. In this text, we suggest some additional examples to underline this influence: in contexts of polarization on the axis of national identity, in the support to the European Union and in the preferences on the functioning of institutions.

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