A representação política revisada: polissemias e metamorfoses

Abstract

This work aims to understand the formulation and development of representation in its political format, enabling components for connection and the generation of meaning in regards to political power in society. It is understood that in order for political representation to exist, it was necessary to have substantial social processes using the representative political body, articulating substantial and procedural components for political representation. Through a review of the literature, this work seeks to understand the structuring of this representation starting with the Middle Ages, observing the changes and continuities transmuted in the American and French Revolutions, unfolding within the mass political parties and in their societal relations. It can be asserted that the attributes of medieval sovereignty and the construction of the mystical body of the State are restructured in the distinct historical periods, articulating the processes of social transformation in which new modes for the organization and reconstruction of political bodies were developed