Democrats’ profiles in Mexico: a look on the democratic rationalities in Mexico

Studies on political culture identify relational patterns between behavior and institutions according to values and individual reasoning. However there is a diversity of expressions about the meaning of democracy in public-opinion polls, which raises an interrogation: why don’t citizens defend value...

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Autor: Zayas Ornelas, León David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/41622
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/41622
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:democracia
cultura política
opinión pública
racionalidad
identidades políticas
no-coherencia actitudinal
democracy
political culture
public opinion
rationality
political identities
attitudinal consistency
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Sumario:Studies on political culture identify relational patterns between behavior and institutions according to values and individual reasoning. However there is a diversity of expressions about the meaning of democracy in public-opinion polls, which raises an interrogation: why don’t citizens defend values traditionally linked with democracy in spite of the fact that they openly support this form of government? To answer this question this article proposes, on one hand, that individual valuations and attitudes towards any regime type are dynamic and contradictory, and, on the other, that citizens do not stick to democratic values on equal measure and intensity. In order to do so, this article outlines some critiques on the axiologic-rationality paradigmand establishes the persistence of multi-rationalities in a democracy. Using the results of the Encuesta Nacional de Cultura Política on three variables: 1) freedom of association, 2) freedom of speech and 3) political pluralism support, we check the democrats profiles in Mexico.