“…The prospective-ideal dimension, which entails the possibility of positive change, is practically absent in most cases and, when mentioned, is conveyed through citizen participation in unconventional political actions. In a recent study with a population sample from Argentina, we found that traditional political actors and institutions were not relevant to respondents' definition of democracy (Alonso & Brussino, 2018). Instead, procedural aspects, such as voting and elections, and unsophisticated negative qualifying adjectives, such as "bad," "contradictory," and "mediocre," composed the core of their social representations of democracy.…”