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The crisis of political representation: the Portuguese case 2002-2015
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Most political science research is concerned with the supply side of politics,
i. e. the ability of political actors to attract supporters; instead, citizenship
research is frequently interested in politics’ demand side, i. e. what citizens ask
from politicians and to what extent are they satisfied with party supply. The
present study addresses the evaluation of political parties and politicians by the
Portuguese citizenry on the basis of a longitudinal analysis of post-electoral
surveys as well as other quantitative data allowing us to measure to which
extent such evaluation fits the features of the “crisis of political representation”
described in extant literature (Porras Nadales 1996). Indeed, in a very recent
article on the concept of Democracy, the Greek political philosopher and
politician Georges Contogeorgis brings the issue of the crisis of political
representation into focus, by reminding us that “the initial political regime
of classic Athens ceased to be fully democratic when it stopped being “the
citizens’ assembly” to become increasingly a matter of representation, which
is by its composition if not by definition an oligarchic institution distinct from
direct participation in the polity. And that was why democracy left Athens in
the early 4th century bc” (Contogeorgis 2017).
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Political representation Portugal
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Citação
Cabral, M. V., Salgado, S. (2018). The crisis of political representation: the Portuguese case 2002-2015. In Lobo, M. C., Silva, F. C. da, Zúquete, J. P. (Eds.), Changing societies: legacies and challenges. Vol. 2. Citizenship in crisis, pp. 27-49. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais