Del "estilo" a la "dirección" la representación política en el Congreso de los Diputados y en los Parlamentos autonómicos

Abstract

This research note aims to present the direction of the relationship between representatives and the represented as a new means of conceptualizing political representation. Traditional empirical models for the analysis of representation used the category of style, which is incompatible with the most recent contributions, both of Political Theory and empirical research that describe political representation as a bidirectional process. In the first part of this note, criticisms to the style category and the advantages of its replacement by direction are presented. In the second part, the CONREP-2012 database is used to analyze Spanish parliamentarians' preferences regarding the direction of representation to highlight the appropriateness of this new conceptualization. Cómo citarCamacho-Ávila, Beatriz (2018). «Del estilo a la dirección: la representación política en el Congreso de los Diputados y en los Parlamentos autonómicos». Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 162: 129-140. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.162.129)La versión en inglés de esta nota de investigación puede consultarse en http://reis.cis.es