Citizen representative of the parties: new legitimacies in non-equivalent contexts

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https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v25.71200

Abstract

Citizen Regulatory Bodies (CRB) are institutions that are legitimized on an idea of citizen representation. Assuming this condition entails extending the problem of the dissonance between the actions of the mandatary and the interests of the constituent, towards these new institutional formats. This article contributes to the definition of this type of participatory institutions, and I argue that, although they oppose their legitimacy to that of elected
politicians, the recognition of their authority requires links with political parties. To build this proposition, I resort to a representation
model where citizen authorities gain representation through an intermediation function between two audiences, a process that I examine through the trajectory of the electoral body in Mexico and the corruption control agencies in Ecuador, as analytically nonequivalent cases.  

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Héctor Manuel Gutiérrez-Magaña, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ciudad de México, México, hectormgum@gmail.com

PHD. Research in Social Sciences with mention in Political Science, from FLACSO Mexico.

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2022-07-25

How to Cite

GUTIÉRREZ-MAGAÑA, H. M. Citizen representative of the parties: new legitimacies in non-equivalent contexts. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 25, 2022. DOI: 10.5216/sec.v25.71200. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fcs/article/view/71200. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Dossiê: Representação na América Latina