Redes de poder gubernamental en la democracia reciente. España: 2004-2012
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2015
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Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey
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Villena, A. (2015). Redes de poder gubernamental en la democracia reciente. España: 2004-2012. Virtualis, 6(11), 115–136. https://doi.org/10.2123/virtualis.v6i11.115
Abstract
Esta investigación consiste en un estudio relacional de dos gobiernos recientes de la democracia española: el gobierno del Partido Popular formado en el año 2012 y el ejecutivo del Partido Socialista Obrero Español en el 2004. Estas dos agencias gubernamentales se conciben y se analizan como redes de relaciones que vinculan a sus miembros a partir de los contactos que estos establecieron en el pasado en cinco tipos de grupos de poder: los ejecutivos, los legislativos, los políticos, los empresariales y los burocráticos. El estudio revela dos rasgos fundamentales para ambos casos: un elevado nivel de cohesión relacional y un conjunto relevante de vínculos que relacionan a los gobiernos constituidos con importantes grupos de poder de la estructura social. Estos "parecidos estructurales" constituyen limitaciones a la acción democrática que pueden explicar parte de la crisis de representación política que se está viviendo actualmente en España
This paper aims to analyzing two recent Spanish democratic governments: the Popular Party government in 2012 and the Socialist Party executive in 2004. Both governmental agencies are studied and understood as social networks that emerge from the links their members established in the past when they coincided in different power groups: executive, legislative, political, business and bureaucratic institutions. This study reveals two types of structural elements in both cases: firstly, a high degree of cohesion within each government and, secondly, a relevant set of links that relate the executive to several power groups of the social structure. These "˜structural similarities"™ represent potential bias and limitations to democratic action that can be understood as one of the causes of the political crisis that is being currently experienced in Spain.
This paper aims to analyzing two recent Spanish democratic governments: the Popular Party government in 2012 and the Socialist Party executive in 2004. Both governmental agencies are studied and understood as social networks that emerge from the links their members established in the past when they coincided in different power groups: executive, legislative, political, business and bureaucratic institutions. This study reveals two types of structural elements in both cases: firstly, a high degree of cohesion within each government and, secondly, a relevant set of links that relate the executive to several power groups of the social structure. These "˜structural similarities"™ represent potential bias and limitations to democratic action that can be understood as one of the causes of the political crisis that is being currently experienced in Spain.