POLARIZED DEMOCRACIES Political Polarization and the Crisis of Representation in the Contemporary World (DEMOCRACIAS POLARIZADAS Polarización política y crisis de representación en el mundo contemporáneo)
Political Analysis Report The essay "Democracias Polarizadas" by Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez (June 2026) offers a profound diagnosis of the crisis of contemporary democracies, characterized not as a conjunctural phenomenon, but as a structural transformation in which the adversary is perceived as an enemy. The author argues that current polarization—observed from Latin America to the United States and Europe—is a symptom of a crisis of representation and of the loss of the idea of the common good. Unlike the historical episodes of the interwar period or the Cold War, this fracture is "post-ideological" and "liquid": populist movements, both of the right and of the left, lack coherent utopian projects and base their success on the contestation of the system and on resentment, rather than on programmatic proposals. English version of the repport at this link (PDF 48 pages) Informe de análisis político El ensayo "Democracias Polarizadas" de Jesús S...