Las representaciones políticas: dos objeciones y tres preguntas sobre el enfoque sistémico

In his book, “El sistema representativo: Las representaciones políti-cas y el ocaso de la democracia parlamentaria”, Felipe Rey Salamanca starts from a commonly shared premise: Representative democracy is in crisis. While this isn’t new, and certainly not for a book dealing with political representation, what makes Rey’s work attractive is hat it introduces, describes, and evaluates a type of multifaceted political representation phenomenon, namely systemic representa-tion. According to Rey, systemic representation is the most important of all representations because it’s identified with a broad set of actors in which government is viewed as a whole. In this paper I’ll focus on three points, two objections and one question that leads the author to go a step further in his conception of representation.