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BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE: FALSIFIABILITY AND LIMITS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM (BASE Y SUPERESTRUCTURA_FALSABILIDAD Y LÍMITES DEL MATERIALISMO HISTÓRICO)

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  Political Analysis Report This essay subjects one of the most influential categories in the social sciences to a critical examination: the Marxist thesis, formulated in the 1859 preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy , asserting that the economic base of a society determines, in the last instance, its political, legal, and ideological superstructure. Without adopting a militant stance or dismissing historical materialism out of hand, the author evaluates which elements of this scheme retain explanatory value, which have been refuted by subsequent historical research, and which alternative theoretical frameworks offer greater explanatory power today. English version of the book at this link (PDF 82 pages) Presentation-Summary Visual Informe de análisis político Este ensayo somete a examen crítico una de las categorías más influyentes de las ciencias sociales: la tesis marxista, formulada en el prólogo de 1859 a la Contribución a la crítica de la economía p...

The selectorate in a fragmented democracy. The logic of political survival of Pedro Sánchez's governments (2018-2026) (El selectorado en una democracia fragmentada)

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  Political Analysis Report This political science essay examines the political survival logic of the governments led by Pedro Sánchez in Spain (2018–2026) through the lens of Selectorate Theory. Departing from simplified or purely situational interpretations, the author utilizes this formal political economy framework to demonstrate that governmental action during this period responds to a predictable and systematic incentive structure. The methodological starting point introduces a conceptual extension to the classic model: the distinction between the formal selectorate (the broad and stable body of eligible voters in Spain) and the functional survival coalition (the small core of parliamentary actors whose concurrence and specific support are indispensable in every vote to prevent the fall of the Executive). English version of the essay at this link (PDF 42 pages) Presentation-Summary Visual Informe de análisis político Este ensayo politológico examina la lógica de superviven...

The cultural war as a contemporary political phenomenon (La guerra cultural como fenómeno político contemporáneo)

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      Political Analysis Report This academic essay analyzes the "culture war" as one of the fundamental axes of political polarization in contemporary democracies across Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Moving beyond oversimplified analyses, the work investigates the origins, dynamics, and causal mechanisms of these conflicts centered around moral values, collective identities, and worldviews, assessing the extent to which they represent a defensive conservative backlash or a mutation of class struggle following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. English version of the book at this link (PDF 96 pages) Presentation-Summary Visual Informe de análisis político Este ensayo académico analiza la «guerra cultural» como uno de los ejes fundamentales de la polarización política en las democracias contemporáneas de Europa, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Frente a análisis simplificadores, la obra investiga los orígenes, dinámicas y mecanismos causales de estos conflic...

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)

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  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...

Betrayed Democracy: Political Loyalties, Structural Irrationality, and Institutional Degradation (La democracia traicionada: lealtades políticas, irracionalidad estructural y degradación institucional )

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      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...

Mapping Political Thought The Great Western Traditions and Their Contemporary Challenges (Cartografía del pensamiento político Las grandes tradiciones occidentales y sus desafíos contemporáneos)

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  Political Analysis Book In Amazon What is the relationship between the individual and society? What makes a political order legitimate? Is freedom compatible with equality? These questions are not new, but they acquire renewed urgency at a moment when the postwar liberal consensus shows deep cracks, collective identities assert their place against individualism, and structural inequalities put the foundations of democratic coexistence to the test. Mapping Western Political Thought is an exercise in comparative analysis that traverses the great traditions of contemporary political philosophy with the purpose of illuminating the deep assumptions underlying each one: their conception of the subject and of the community, their vision of human nature, and their response to the question of the origin and legitimacy of the political. The itinerary begins with the two great traditions that have dominated modern debate. Liberalism is examined in all its internal plurality, from class...