Reseña del Libro de S. Tormey "The End of Representative Politics"
- Autores: Lasse Thomassen
- Localización: Recerca: revista de pensament i analisi, ISSN 1130-6149, Nº. 21, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La democracia directa a debate: procesos y mecanismos de participación ciudadana), págs. 190-194
- Idioma: inglés
Es reseña de:
The End of Representative Politics
Simon Tormey
Wiley, 2015
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Resumen
Simon Tormey’s book, The End of Representative Politics, draws on his work on representation from the last decade as well as on a case study of the tumultuous, but exciting, Spanish politics of recent years. Tormey is interested in a new form of politics that puts into question two images: our inherited image of representation as a unilateral relationship between governing and governed, and our inherited image of democratic politics as representative politics. Politics and democracy are much more than institutional, representative politics, and therefore contemporary activists and movements such as 15M are not anti-political, but challenge a particular view of democratic politics as representative politics.
