The imbrication and dissolution of the mass in the public, its consequences: the political instability of liberal systems

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Ciro Enrique Hernández Rodríguez

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A quick look at the current political conjunctures in the liberal political systems that were successfully organizing Western societies from the end of World War II until the last economic crisis of 2008, allows us to verify the more or less chaotic state in which many of them are found. What was once with few exceptions a bipartisan political backwater of alternations between two major and hegemonic political forces today is a gibberish of atomized and dispersed political forces throughout the political spectrum. Without removing its responsibility for the crisis, there are certain causes related to changes in the social composition of Public Opinion and the emergence of new Information and Communication Technologies that explain the great instability that has gripped Western political systems. This qualitative research develops a pertinent explanatory argument that reveals the way in which institutional changes have been affecting the traditional public social sphere, from which the governments of liberal systems are still legitimized during political processes.

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Hernández Rodríguez, Ciro Enrique. 2020. “The Imbrication and Dissolution of the Mass in the Public, Its Consequences: The Political Instability of Liberal Systems”. Vivat Academia. Journal of Communication, no. 151 (June):47-68. https://doi.org/10.15178/va.2020.151.47-68.
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Ciro Enrique Hernández Rodríguez, Universidad de La Laguna

Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication at the University of La Laguna, attached to the Department of Communication Sciences and Social Work in the area of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising knowledge. Currently he teaches the subjects of Technology in Journalism, Public Opinion and Audiovisual Communication: Informational Television and Radio. Fundamental academic training: Diploma in Political Science (UNED), Bachelor of Information Sciences, specializing in Journalism (ULL), Master's Degree in Philosophy, Culture and Society (ULL), Doctorate in New Journalistic Models (UMH). Brief research curriculum: In addition to being a member of the Management Committee of the Latin Society for Social Communication, he has not only participated in the successive Organizing Committees of its Congresses and has served as a moderator in its thematic tables, he has also published communications and presentations. He has participated in other academic Congresses contributing his collaborations. He has been Co-Editor of the Communication magazine Pangea for a period of two years, he has published research articles in Vivat Academia, Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, Mediterranean Journal of Communication. In addition, he has two publications in the series Cuadernos Artesanos de Comunicación Social: The Chinatowns of the Tenerife Press in 2007 and The Role of the Tenerife Press in the ‘Paras Crisis’ in 2006, and chapters in other publications in this series. Currently he teaches the subjects of Technology in Journalism, Public Opinion and Audiovisual Communication: Informational Television and Radio.

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