%0 Journal Article %T Comunicaci¨®n pol¨ªtica y calidad democr¨¢tica en Am¨¦rica Latina %A Holzmann %A Guillermo %J Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Dise£¿¡Ào y Comunicaci£¿3n. Ensayos %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the present article raises a descriptive analysis from a political optics, oriented to generate a measurement of the quality of democracy from a compared perspective, considering political communication like a relevant driver in the representation and legitimacy of the political system and therefore in the quality of democracy. the author contextualises the democratic process at the end of the frst decade of the 21st century to approach then the issue of democracy quality and its measurement from the political communication as a core element in the profit of this quality. %K communication people %K corporate communication %K institutional communication %K organizational communication %K political communication %K public %K public government %K public policies %K public relations %K strategic communication. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1853-35232010000300010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en