The denial of the part: the crisis of political representation in Argentina

Abstract

The crisis of political representation in Argentina, which was developed between 1990 and 2002 and had its most intense episode in December 2001, has had various interpretations from the social sciences, as is characteristic of all complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Here we analyze some of them and especially the dimension of the phenomenon that is associated with political parties. Even if we accept that this was a crisis of political parties, it is still necessary to specify which of its dimensions is the one that was eroded. In this way, and ten years from 2001, can begin to understand what is changing in the last decade, while the parties continue to be challenged in his representative capacity, is no longer possible to describe the general situation as a crisis of political representation. We thus conclude that the parties "forgot" that one of its most important functions is to help establish through the word, the conflict and the political cleavages, the political difference, from which constitutes the political community.