Neoliberal Hegemony and the Post-Democratization of the Public Sphere. An analytical framework to evaluate the democratic quality of political discourse

• Autores: Claudia Ritzi
• Localización: IC Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, ISSN 1696-2508, Nº. 11, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Comunicación y prácticas culturales emergentes frente al imaginario neoliberal: hegemonía y disidencia), págs. 167-187
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Hegemonia Neoliberal y la Post-Democratización de la Esfera Pública: marco de análisis para evaluar la calidad del discurso democrático
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    El presente artículo ofrece un marco de análisis para evaluar la calidad democrática de los discursos públicos en las democracias occidentales y expone las consecuencias de la post-democratización de la Esfera Pública. Parte de los postulados de Colin Crouch, Jacques Rancière y Sheldon Wolin, y defiende que las transformaciones graduales de las democracias occidentales en �post-democracias� están marcadas por la hegemonía neoliberal, que refuerza la influencia de las elites económicas y limita el poder de la ciudadanía, sin que se acompañe de un cambio institucional visible. Se argumenta que tal proceso produce un cambio estructural en la esfera pública. Mediante el análisis de estos cambios resulta posible probar empíricamente las hipótesis post-democráticas y evaluar el impacto de la hegemonía neoliberal en el discurso público.

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    The paper offers an analytical framework to evaluate the democratic quality of public discourses in Western democracies and discusses the consequences of a post-democratization of the public sphere. Referring to Colin Crouch, Jacques Rancière and Sheldon Wolin it arguesthat the gradual transformation of western democracies to �post-democracies� is marked by neoliberal hegemony, which strengthened the influence of economic elites and decreased the political power of the citizenry without being accompanied by institutional change. As it is argued in the paper, it also leads to a structural transformation of the public sphere. By analyzing these changes we can even test the post-democratic assumptions empirically and evaluate the impact of neoliberal hegemony on public discourse

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