The political society: the exercise of power as a conditioned action

Abstract

The relationship between society and politics inside pluralist democracies is generally conceived in the context of differentiated modern societies and representative politics of electoral legitimation. However, the concrete analysis of the conditions of the exercise of power in each democratic society shows important differences that interfere in the possibility of a direct use of the models originally built in societies organized in different ways. The uncontrolled use of these models, in the political action or as fundament for political promises, mainly if they do or respect the singularities of each society, is a source of paradoxes and unintended effects. Thus, it is convenient to develop a comparison between the perspective of the sociology of politics and the perspective of the political sociology in order to define the real content of the exercise of power as a conditioned action by the particularities of each society.