Fragmented citizenship: between representation and deliberation
Abstract
Do citizens' perceptions and behaviors respond to the requirements formulated by deliberative democracy? This work analyses the magnitude and depth of the crisis of representative democracy, to, based on the keys that characterize this complex context, inquire about the proposals that scientific literature poses to combat this crisis. Among them, are set of approaches around deliberative democracy stand out, which involve moving from a conception of passive citizen, which is limited to casting the vote every four years, to an active citizen involved in the daily life of public affairs.
Subsequently, the central objective of this paper is addressed: to identify the greater or lesser predisposition of Spanish citizens to develop the perceptions and required by a deliberative democracy. To do this, the Spanish citizenship is radiographed through an analysis of secondary data from the last CIS barometers.
The results of the analysis show the existence of a fragmented citizenship that adopts heterogeneity of positions in the representation-deliberation continuum.
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