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Grandes expectativas: la democracia mexicana y sus descontentos

Great expectations: Mexican democracy and its discontents
[journal article]

Aguilar Rivera, José Antonio

Abstract

No hay duda de que la democracia en México no ha producido los resultados esperados. No ha creado una mayor igualdad social o económica. Pocas personas creen que su participación en la política es ahora más efectiva que antes, el gobierno electo a menudo no cumple con las demandas de los ciudadanos,... view more

No hay duda de que la democracia en México no ha producido los resultados esperados. No ha creado una mayor igualdad social o económica. Pocas personas creen que su participación en la política es ahora más efectiva que antes, el gobierno electo a menudo no cumple con las demandas de los ciudadanos, y algunas regiones del país están bajo el control de los violentos cárteles de la droga. Estas fallas ciertamente abonan al descontento de los ciudadanos con su democracia. Sin embargo, el propósito de este artículo es centrar la atención en otros motivos, menosaparentes, del intenso malestar político. Los mexicanos están insatisfechos con su gobierno democrático, no sólo porque no les ha provisto de los bienes sociales que, de manera realista o no, se esperan normalmente de la democracia. También se encuentran molestos por lo que perciben como una brecha entre su concepción idealizada de la misma y la forma en que realmente funcionan las instituciones democráticas existentes en tanto que se ha construido una peculiar imagen ahistórica de la democracia. El principal argumento de este trabajo es que el parámetro crítico de la democracia que los mexicanos construyeron es defectuoso. Se intenta demostrar que este concepto erróneo ha tenido efectos perniciosos en tanto que ha alentado expectativas no razonables y ha cegado a los mexicanos respecto de las reformas posibles. Finalmente, se analiza específicamente el papel desempeñado por la búsqueda de la equidad.... view less


There is no doubt that democracy in México has fallen short of expectations: it has not increased social and economic equality. Few people deem their participation in politics is now more effective than before, the elected government often fails to meet citizens' demands, and some regions of the ... view more

There is no doubt that democracy in México has fallen short of expectations: it has not increased social and economic equality. Few people deem their participation in politics is now more effective than before, the elected government often fails to meet citizens' demands, and some regions of the country are seemingly under the control of violent drug cartels. These faults certainly fuel the voters' discontent with the democratic regime. The aim of this paper though is to focus on other less apparent sources of the existing intense political dissatisfaction. Mexicans are unsatisfied with their democratic government not only because it has not provided them with the social goods they are realistically or not expecting from democracy. They are also unhappy due to the perceived gap between an idealized notion of democracy and the way the existing democratic institutions actually work, as an odd ahistorical image of democracy has been constructed. The major claim of this work is that the critical standard of democracy assumed by Mexicans is inaccurate. It will be argued that this ideological misconception has had pernicious effects, as it has nurtured unreasonable expectations and has inhibited Mexicans from considering feasible reforms. It will be also examined in particular the role played by the pursuit of equity.... view less

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

Free Keywords
equity; equality; democracy; expectations; elites

Document language
Spanish

Publication Year
2014

Page/Pages
p. 19-50

Journal
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 59 (2014) 222

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0185-1918(14)70209-0

ISSN
2448-492X

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0


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