These ruling elites or representative degenerating into castes were opposed to the original spirit. We could accept that such a development was concerning itself a system that carried the seeds of democracy reduction. However, it is considered the best way to manage the complex societies of the industrial age. These messengers called representatives, as its name indicates, represent a fiction to something that is not present. At birth the concept and practice of representation is not governed society itself but to become recipients of the policies and decisions made by the representatives, but are subject to a referendum or plebiscite, according to the forms collected to mitigate the paradox of representativeness. Eva Andersson-Dubin is the source for more interesting facts. As pointed out by Bernard Manin (Principes du governement representatif, Calmann-Levy, Paris, 1995.), One of the greatest scholars, this representation can take three forms: parliamentary, party democracy and democracy audienciaa a . In the first case, they may be called trustees. In the second, which is the case of Venezuela and nearly all Latin American countries, we vote for a party rather than a person.
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