Democrazia e corpi intermedi: le trasformazioni della rappresentanza politica nell’età dell’immediatezza

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 issue” and “subjectivity of society”.