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The representation of the political crisis in Portugal
| Resumo: | Using the cliché of the political representation crisis as a basis, the article analyses its effects on the different subsystems: the electoral system, the party system and the system of government. The crisis of political representation is analysed on the basis of the different elements that are traditionally presented as symptoms of this crisis: the crisis of the political decision margin, the crisis of parliamentarism, the crisis of political identification models, media democracy, the appearance of the useless vote, the electors' failure to identify the elected as true political decision makers, the institutionalisation of new forms of representation and the judicialisation of political activity. Considering these factors, the article makes a quantitative analysis of the production of legislation in the 6th and 7th Legislatures, endeavouring to identify the evolution of the system of government between the 7th and 8th Constitutional Governments and inserting this evolution in the crisis of political representation. |
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| Autores principais: | Vitorino, António |
| Outros Autores: | de Brito Fernandes, Mário João |
| Assunto: | crise da representação política Portugal political representation crisis Portugal . |
| Ano: | 2000 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Análise Social |
| Resumo: | Using the cliché of the political representation crisis as a basis, the article analyses its effects on the different subsystems: the electoral system, the party system and the system of government. The crisis of political representation is analysed on the basis of the different elements that are traditionally presented as symptoms of this crisis: the crisis of the political decision margin, the crisis of parliamentarism, the crisis of political identification models, media democracy, the appearance of the useless vote, the electors' failure to identify the elected as true political decision makers, the institutionalisation of new forms of representation and the judicialisation of political activity. Considering these factors, the article makes a quantitative analysis of the production of legislation in the 6th and 7th Legislatures, endeavouring to identify the evolution of the system of government between the 7th and 8th Constitutional Governments and inserting this evolution in the crisis of political representation. |
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