Abstract

PLOT, Martín. Elections and Political Regime in the United States. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2016, n.32, pp.13-24. ISSN 1853-984X.

General elections, and particularly presidential elections in presidentialist systems, are much more than instances for the selection of representatives. Here it is suggested that general elections are deliberative events that could be called “institutionalized deliberative scenes”. The presidential election of 2016 in the United States was an institutionalized deliberative scene particularly relevant for the future of the American political regime. Inscribed in Claude Lefort’s conceptual framework, the article puts forward a partial re-articulation of his typology of political regimes in order to—and in parallel with Bruce Ackerman’s theorization of constitutional regimes—proceed to the analysis of this electoral process’ incidence on a United States still under the spell of the cultural and political transformations generated by the September 11th of 2001 terrorist attacks.

Keywords : Deliberative scenes; Regimes of politics; Constitutional regimes; Presidential elections; United States; Lefort; Ackerman.

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