La representación social de la democracia de adolescentes argentinos

Since the late twentieth century, several studies have shown the distancing and dissatisfaction of citizens of different\udages in relation to political parties, which has led to the phenomenon known as a crisis of political representation.\udThe purpose of this paper was to investigate the social representations of democracy of Argentinean adolescents. A\udstudy was conducted using intentional sampling that included 376 participants between the ages of 16 and 18 years\ud(M=16.87, SD=0.734). The participants were administered the word association technique with the word “democracy”\udas the inductor term. The results show that the central core of the participants’ social representation of democracy\udconsisted of the following terms: “vote, freedom, equality, rights, people, freedom of expression, participation, and\udopinion”. In conclusion, the participants thought of democracy in terms of values and operating mechanisms inherent\udto the representative democracy political system, although they did not associate it with politics or a government\udinstitution