criterios democráticos deliberativos. El resultado es un replanteamiento completo de las posibilidades de la democracia deliberativa, una interpretaci ón que abandona la búsqueda de la perfección en una sola institución, y apuesta por una comprensión más dialógica de la teoría deliberativa.
The emergence of protest movements, such as the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street, is one of the most remarkable political occurrences in recent years. Social scientists have immediately started analysing these phenomena, highlighting the broad political implications for contemporary democracies, and especially the disaffection towards political institutions and the financial system they reflect. This article argues that these phenomena should be considered through the lens of the broad role of emotions in politics. Whilst scholars have recently shown increased attention to the role of emotions in politics, this article advances some suggestions for a theoretical and crossdisciplinary inquiry, which can contribute to the connection between protest event analysis and normative political theory. Quoting particularly the Indignados' slogans and mottos, this article draws attention to the central function of emotions -especially anger and fear -in motivating people to engage in political action and in the construction of political order. Specifically, this article shows how emotions play in the construction of the political subject -the people -as well as in today's struggle for democratic legitimacy and the resistance to the emptying of democracy by globalmarket forces.
Esta investigación pregunta qué rol desempeña la dimensión emocional en el populismo. Adoptando una perspectiva multidisciplinar que une a los estudios contemporáneos sobre populismo con la literatura sobre movimientos sociales y el “giro afectivo”, este trabajo avanza la hipótesis de que para arrojar luz sobre este fenómeno hay que tomarse en serio las concretas manifestaciones emocionales propias de la vida política. Esta perspectiva abre horizontes interesantes para el debate sobre el valor normativo del populismo y su relación con la democracia liberal. Dependiendo de la declinación de los vectores emocionales, este nexo se inclina hacia un equilibrio positivo, donde discursos y prácticas populistas pueden corregir o fortalecer la democracia, o, por el contrario, hacia una relación negativa, y el populismo puede alterar los equilibrios democráticos y, en última instancia, desembocar en formas autoritarias.
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