El populismo moderno y sus mecanismos sociológicos: ¿una nueva arquitectura política?
| Author | Pedro José Izquierdo |
| Profession | Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona) |
| Pages | 77-88 |
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EL POPULISMO MODERNO Y SUS
MECANISMOS SOCIOLÓGICOS: ¿UNA
NUEVA ARQUITECTURA POLÍTICA?
Pedro José I
Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona)
. I
La política actual está marcada por una profunda y transver-
sal ambigüedad. Por un lado, la doctrina política del orden liberal
en el que vivimos vive de la pretensión de ser una ciencia, un co-
nocimiento objetivo y –sobre todo– neutral, abstraído e indepen-
diente de las luchas y banderías políticas de cada momento. Los
conceptos y categorías que emplea se presentan como nociones
meramente descriptivas de lo político, y por tanto debe entenderse
como neutrales respecto de los operadores políticos. Por el otro
lado, no se les escapa a muchos que esta «ciencia» juega también
un papel central en la justificación de las acciones políticas que el
régimen liberal auspicia. Sus conceptos y categorías se usan tam-
bién como elementos prescriptivos de la vida política.
La tensión entre lo que el pensamiento político actual dice de
sí mismo y los usos a los que de hecho sirve deforma todos los con-
ceptos que emplea, entre ellos, el de «populismo». Cuando nos
planteamos la pregunta acerca de los «mecanismos sociológicos»
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