Rethinking political representation

In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Volume 2, Issue 50, p. 5-11

Abstract

The century that began is marked by a political paradox. On the one hand, democracy appears to be more attractive than ever for people who are deprived diet. The Arab revolutions are part of a series that has seen many dictatorships collapse in profit in less formal institutions of the rule of law and representative government. In historical terms, there has never been much of democratic regimes in the world. No ideology seems today to be able to compete with democracy or even present itself as a comprehensive alternative. On the other hand, in the European and North American democracies, the election no longer seems sufficient to give decisions representatives real legitimacy in public opinion, and economic and social crisis opened since the crisis of financial capitalism has done that make the tense situation. Thus, the articles in this issue, which belong to different traditions or borrow elements from more than one of these traditions, give the representation of images at multiple times and precisely circumscribed. Adapted from the source document.