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DEMOCRACY AND INTERMEDIATE SOCIETIES: CHANGES IN POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN THE CLOSEST SOCIETY
Abstract
The concept of disintermediation, taken from the economic sphere, is becoming more
and more common in strictly political areas. This concept characterizes social states in which there
is a noticeable weakening of the action of intermediate bodies at the level of mediation necessary
for the proper, dynamic functioning of the larger community. Mediation is especially important
for democracy. Nevertheless, it is in a democracy that it can be socially eroded. Catholic social
teaching will suggest that mediation, intermediate communities, power, the common good are
mutually complementary realities, without which it is impossible to talk about a healthy “social
tissue” and “subjectivity of society”.
Keywords:
intermediate communities, mediation, disintermediation, civil society, politics, social ethics.Details
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