Betrayed Democracy: Political Loyalties, Structural Irrationality, and Institutional Degradation (La democracia traicionada: lealtades políticas, irracionalidad estructural y degradación institucional )
Political Analysis Report Betrayed Democracy: Political Loyalties, Structural Irrationality, and Institutional Degradation is a political science essay by Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez that addresses a central paradox of contemporary democracies: why do parties that betray their voters, accumulate corruption, and fail to keep their promises not only survive electorally, but in many cases retain massive support? The author's central thesis is that this apparent irrationality is not an isolated anomaly within the system, but rather a structural feature of mass representative democracy. The system generates, more or less inevitably, the conditions for its own deterioration. English version of the book at this link (PDF 76 pages) Informe de análisis político La democracia traicionada: lealtades políticas, irracionalidad estructural y degradación institucional es un ensayo de ciencia política de Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez que aborda una paradoja central de las democracias con...