Politics; Democracy and Public Opinion. Mexico 2006

Abstract

Public opinion as a sociological phenomenon has ben a controversial one. There are, on one side, those who have questioned their existence, while, on the other one, there are those who see it as a promise of a new deliberative democracy.

Perhaps the problem has been the moral importance they give both ends. Public opinion is fundamental to modern politics, but is not capable to found it morally, and this is a lesson to be taken into account in Mexico, particularly for the 2006 electoral process.