Through the topics discused in this Blog, a particular description Peruvian polity has been presented. Based on observed non-standarized features of this specific democratic regime, the whole functioning of the polity has been characterized as chaotic and informal. However, is was neither qualified as the right nor the good, this discourse has tried to understand it.

However, it is through these topics that a pattern that provides meaning to the whole program has emerged. It resembles agonism because of ‘pluralism, tragedy and the value of conflict’1 subjacent in the cases of informal urbanization and political struggle. Both cases pointed out ‘in the common emphasis on liberty as the absence of domination’1 that agonism adscribes and shares with republican theory. Republican theory views politics ‘as a struggle against domination’1. Further these themes, are described ‘with their stress on the exercise of democratic freedom as means to counter oppression, normalisation, and exploitation’1.

The emergence of constituent power is constantly refered as the driver of the democratic process in Peru. This potency takes the form of informal normative regime based on free market economics. The described tension between Power qua capacity (potentia) and power qua right (potestas) that aligns with the imposing order paradigm technocrats have, remarks the apropriatedeness of the already identified agonistic approach of the discourse at work.

Reference

  1. Mark Wenman 2013. Agonistic Democracy, Constituent Power in the Era of Globalisation; Chapter 1: Introduction: agonism and the constituent power, pp. 3 - 27. Cambridge University Press. <DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777158.003> ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4