Ideologies and political representation: a study on Michael Freeden and Nadia Urbinati
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v43i1p38-50Keywords:
Ideologies , Representation , Legitimacy , Democracy , DeliberationAbstract
The crisis of political representation and the current threats to liberal democracies are issues of large reflection and debate in contemporary political philosophy, what partly explains the renewed interest in the concept of political representation. This article sustains that the understanding of political ideologies, built on Michael Freeden’s morphological approach, enables new forms of thinking about representation and its relation to democracy. By ascribing stable and determined meanings to essentialy contested concepts, ideologies dispute over the control of policial language and also perform an integrative function, simbolically attaching and individual to its society, allowing the sharing of the contentes of the individual conscience. From Nadia Urbinati’s work, it defends the centrality of recovering the ideological dimension in politics so as to attain a notion of democratic representation, which implies to comprehend the deliberative role of political ideologies and the hybrid character of this systems of thought, which contain racional and non-rational elements.
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