The evolution of the characteristics of modern political representation in west

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i20.538

Keywords:

Modern political representation, representative government, representative mandate and no revocability, sovereignty, periodical vote and freedom of speech

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to respond synthetically to five of the main questions about modern political representation. Namely: why did it arise, around what axiology assumption did it, what characteristics do they possess, which were the theoretical-practical bases of each of them and which evolution have the had until the end of 20th century.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 06/04/2018

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 10/06/2018

Author Biography

Daniel Fernández Cañueto, Universitat de Lleida

Profesor de Derecho Constitucional de la UdL. Sus líneas de investigación principales versan sobre los sistemas de gobierno representativos, el Derecho Parlamentario comparado y la calidad democrática. Es coordinador del Seminario anual “Nuevos Horizontes del Derecho Constitucional”. Y sus últimas publicaciones son La iglesia católica y la nacionalización de Cataluña (2016) y “Gobierno representativo y realidad constitucional. La España contemporánea entre literatura y pensamiento político” (diciembre 2017).

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Published

2018-11-27

Issue

No. 20 (2019): Historia Constitucional N. 20 (2019)

Section

Europe

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