Renewing the clogged channels of political representation and democracy

Authors

  • Salvatore Prisco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/2421-0528/8328

Keywords:

representation, democracy, parties

Abstract

"What do public law jurists do? They take a factual, that is, historical situation [...] as if it were crystallised, they translate it into concepts, they express it in systemic terms. They must do so, it is necessary that they do so. Their own work, for its part, serves to give consistency to the state, and awareness to the very forces that preside over the formation and maintenance, if I may say so, of the state. And so there is necessarily in these jurists an adhesion, an acceptance of facts and forces, an acceptance of the political formula of the state, of the current pro tempore structure by which the state is governed. This acceptance is the technical condition of the jurist's technical work. By accepting, the public law jurist obeys, whether he wants to or not, the imperative call of reality, that is, of political forces. And this is the delicate, terribly delicate work of the science of public law: accepting the ephemeral and trying to transform it into the stable".

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Published

2021-10-14

How to Cite

Prisco, S. (2021). Renewing the clogged channels of political representation and democracy. Diritto Pubblico Europeo. Rassegna on-Line, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.6093/2421-0528/8328