%0 Journal Article
%T El nuevo institucionalismo y la concepci¨®n representacionalista de la pol¨ªtica
%A Pereyra
%A Guillermo
%J Perfiles latinoamericanos
%D 2009
%I Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede M¨¦xico
%X the main objective of this paper is to offer a critique of the representationalist assumptions of some of the neoinstitutionalist studies. two fundamental theses are upheld: 1) the institutionalist model of democracy's critique of the notion of popular sovereignty does not take into consideration that the people is a political category which shows the constituitive failure of any representation; 2) the new institutionalism theory, and in particular from its historical-sociological perspective, is based on the representationalist assumption that there is something previous to politics in society, and culture that must be faithfully represented by the institutions to avoid disorder.
%K new institutionalism
%K representationalism
%K procedural democracy
%K the people
%K institutional instability
%K path dependence.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0188-76532009000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en