Rodríguez 2001

GONZALO M. RODRÍGUEZ. 2001. "Crisis, Social Explosion, and Three Moments of Breaking with Representative Democracy in Argentina". International Journal of Political Economy. 31 (1): 79-88.

• "If in the light of the events it is clear that the will of millions of citizens, expressed through voting, is not respected by their supposed representatives, it is then revealed that representative democracy is not a mechanism of representation, but rather a means of expropriating the popular will." (80)
• the economic consequences of the de la Rua government were the wake-up call of the urban middle sectors (81)
• three breaks with representative democracy
• null votes in October 2001 (82)
• protests in December 2001, supermarket lootings, middle class caceralazos (82-83)
• middle classes and poor rebelled at same time, but they used very different strategies (83)
• asambleas barriales (84)
• big, radical break with representative democracy (85)
• "As Argentine society heads toward an intensification of its social contradictions, the confrontation between the ruling class and the popular sectors (which now include sectors of the comfortable middle class) grows deeper and more visible." (86)
• "Today the people do not have representatives or referents within the "political class"...the people mobilized themselves outside the traditional state structures of the parties, and outside even the unions and other preexisting movements." (86)