Old and New Political Subjects

Abstract

With the end of the twentieth century there has been a radical change of society and political culture that has had a profound impact on the functioning of democracies even where these have maintained unchanged its institutional structures. Starting point of the article presented is thus: who are the protagonists of politics? And therefore proper reflection about politics nowadays should start with the question of who should take part in it and which the new and old political issues are, if it should be the purview of a select few or open to everyone, to experts or to what we call the people, a difficult concept to define longer available, in a space which is no longer clearly structured by social classes, nor mobilized by political parties.