Abstract

Representative democracy has been undergoing deep changes in what concerns to its original structure as it was conceived by liberals. One of the transformations was the Social State, which was not included in the formal structure of the representative system. However, overcoming the census regime, a strong interaction between politics and communication, almost non-existent at the beginning of the representative system, has been developed over time. With the growth of the communication subsystem - from the media to the network - the “intermediate space” that stood as a “gap” between the “civil society” and the “political society” was being occupied by communication to the point to impose a deliberative public space which changed the central mechanisms of representative democracy, seeking to reverse the asymmetrical relationship between deliberation and formal political decision that has been gradually imposed in favor of the latter, creating what I call the “representation dyscrasia”. This is the process that is analyzed here, trying to achieve a breakeven between these components of the democratic system in order to shape a democracy that some researchers call “Deliberative Democracy”.