resents the Fourth Republic in his column mind Lorenzo Meyer COLMEX writer and researcher makes the following question "How Mexico now live in a democracy and what kind? It is not possible to give a clear and objective, it responds. However, as the issue is key, there are at least to try to clarify it. "
And you try with the arguments of one of the most recognized Latin American theorists, Professor Guillermo O'Donnell, who relates that" has never been anything that can be called a completely fair election "because even in the best candidates are featuring some unfair advantages. However, what matters is not the problem itself, for no real democracy free from defects, but how serious it is. In a advanced democracies number of problems do not prevent acceptable performance of the system but in other less strong, yes.
To determine the nature of evil is necessary to first determine the essence of this concept, it lacks a clear, universally accepted. It is a notion that has always been a debate and, moreover, is protein, ie change its own development, since the transformer is in their nature. For these reasons it is possible to have the style of those who study the physical phenomena of an objective means of verification that allows itself to decide what and what is not true democracy. Worldwide
real what can and should make every society, says O'Donnell, is seeking to reach and stay within that segment of countries where the system works acceptably and dominates the "critical citizen." However, most of Latin America and a number of countries in Eastern Europe are in a second group where the quality of the political settlement is lower and where, therefore, commands a kind of "skeptical citizen" who does not trust in the institutional arrangement within which lives and has a low opinion of their parties, legislators and judges. Finally there is a third type of systems ("the third world democracy?) Where this form of government and political competition is only shell without content. In these "electoral authoritarian" work only subjects, not citizens. "
For Argentine theoretical, historical processes show that at the end are two basic components of a modern democracy, including low quality. On the one hand, that the opposition has a reasonable chance of actually winning, and also that political freedoms do not only give the opportunity to speak and associate it to access information that is not monopolized. In contrast, the "electoral authoritarianism", there may be parties and even a formal competition, but that power is subject to a rule that entirely undermines the notion of this form of government "under no circumstances be allowed to beat the opposition" freedoms are restricted and controlled information.
After hearing the negative as in fair which brought the 2006 elections, as well as censorship by the government in the case of Oaxaca, the brutal repression is not widespread, a legitimate citizen movement can not be talking about democracy. In Mexico I have said before we live the double standard of the masks. Lorenzo Meyler is clear reiterates: "As in 1929, 1940, 1946, 1952 or 1988, in 2006 the opposition could compete but not win."
Lorenzo Meyer, ends his article wondering if Mexico is experiencing a low-quality democracy or electoral authoritarianism. I particularly in view of events, I strongly believe that Mexico is in electoral authoritarianism, where only the votes of the electors, who are the big cities and those in power, the rest of us mere stooge of the system, that have no problem to win the PRI or the PAN, is a stooge of the other. The TV we form our opinion based on their convenience, in the meantime, all we do is complain about our personal misfortunes is the right place to affect the decisions of a few. You think, dear reader, this is in favor of the PRD, in any way This form is for free citizens, and therefore critical actors of his time. Job
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