La Contemporary oligarchy: the government of few disguised as democracy

It has been sold us the idea of democracy as the government of the people, where the social interests are represented by a single person elected by the society itself. The present proyect pretends, among many others objectives, put into question this definition througth a deductive analysis of the polls made by our investigation group along the last months. In Colombia the act of not voting has become a general action since the half of the last century until today, and although democracy is not just voting, this exercise is a general feature in democratic societies and a categorical factor in knowing the will of the majority. Our final purpose is that to the end of this work the reader may question if the abstentionism phenomenon corresponds to a lack of credibility in democracy, to the desinterest and desinformation of the people, or both.

• Autores: Hernández Peñaloza, Mateo; Reina Serrano, Daniel; Rondón Mendoza, Paula; Umaña Casallas, Sara
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Antonio Nariño
• Repositorio: Repositorio UAN
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uan.edu.co:123456789/5374
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/papeles/article/view/514; http://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/5374
• Palabra clave: abstentionism; democracy; elections; Colombia; government; social interests; information; abstencionismo; democracia; elecciones; Colombia; gobierno; intereses sociales; información
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)