THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND THE PARTY SYSTEM

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2162262213126

• Palavras-chave: Political representation; parties.

• Keywords: Political representation; parties.

• Abstract:

  This work aims to address the main concepts, characteristics and principles of political representation. The theme “political representation” is put up for debate in the face of any problem in which individuals or groups of individuals are placed in an attempt to seek collective consensual solutions. Despite the fact that the solution of collective conflicts is one of the oldest questions of humanity, inherent to the human being itself, the concept of political representation, as it is currently used, appeared much later in Western culture. A complex concept, different from the word “to represent”, and with very particular characteristics. The polysemy of the term contributed to the fact that praxis did not adapt to current ideal models, becoming contaminated by the different uses of “representation” and “representing” in the visual arts, in the performing arts, in literature and in the legal field, among others.