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The document discusses the relationship between democracy and political representation. It notes that representative democracies balance democratic elements like elections and public opinion with the representative process where elected officials make decisions. Populism can arise as a dysfunction when representation fails to reflect the will of the people. Populism threatens substantive representation and moves towards a radical descriptive representation, endangering the regime of representative democracy itself.
Presentation warsaw
- 1. Political Representation and Democracy a difficult relationship
- 2. Nuno da Silva Jorge ESCS-IPL / Lisbon, Portugal
- 3. Were living turbulent times in politics
- 4. Objectives Democracy and representation are two conflictual concepts The nature of representative democracies Populism as a malfunction of the regime
- 5. Thinking politics is thinking the regime
- 6. What is a democracy? Constitutive rules of a democracy Regulative rules of a democracy
- 7. Political representation Different types of representation (Pitkin, 1967) Formal (authorization) Symbolic Representation (semiotics) Descriptive (similitude) Ssubstantive (action)
- 8. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. (Burke, 1774)
- 9. Representative Democracy Ideal type or electoral democracy?
- 10. A democratic theory of representation demand us to go beyond the discrete and intermittent questions of electoral instances and look into the continuous influence and created power by political judgment and how these diversified power relate with representative institutions. (Urbinati, 2011: 25)
- 11. But opinion is not the same as decision. The influence of public debate doesnt solve the conflict of democracy with the decision making process political representation.
- 12. Representative Democracy Is indeed na hybrid regime that oscillates between the democratic that the people is soverneign and the representative process that a few decide what is valid for all
- 13. Populism rises as a malfunction When the representation fails the outcome intended by the sovereign (people)
- 14. Populism is a synthom Not an ideology
- 15. Populism kills substantive representation Is descriptive representation: radical democracy
- 16. In resume Representative democracy is based on two conflictual concepts It work in the balance between democracy (election and opinion) and political representation (decision making process) Popullism is a symptom of a malfunction of the regime Popullism is radical democracy that put in danger the regime itself by killing substantive representation
- 17. Nuno da Silva Jorge ESCS-IPL / Lisbon, Portugal njorge@escs.ipl.pt