Citizen representative of the parties: new legitimacies in non-equivalent contexts
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Citizen Regulatory Bodies (CRB) are institutions that are legitimized on an idea of citizen representation. Assuming this condition entails extending the problem of the dissonance between the actions of the mandatary and the interests of the constituent, towards these new institutional formats. This article contributes to the definition of this type of participatory institutions, and I argue that, although they oppose their legitimacy to that of elected
politicians, the recognition of their authority requires links with political parties. To build this proposition, I resort to a representation
model where citizen authorities gain representation through an intermediation function between two audiences, a process that I examine through the trajectory of the electoral body in Mexico and the corruption control agencies in Ecuador, as analytically nonequivalent cases.
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