Book presentation of Juan Pablo Luna's book: "Democracia Muerta" (Dead Democracy).

November, 2024. Dead Democracy is an essay by political scientist Juan Pablo Luna on Latin America and Chile that argues that the problems facing democracies in the region today do not originate in institutional politics, but in much deeper structural factors that transcend leaders and the rules of the political game.

The chronic weakening of democracy and its permanent crisis is related, according to the book's author, to the expansion of illegal markets and organized crime, to an exhausted development model, to the collapse of political parties and to the growing incapacity of the State to address the social transformations that push us to rethink democracy and the future of our coexistence. 

Juan Pablo Luna, PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a full professor at the School of Government of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a research associate at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data and the Millennium Institute VioDemos. 

His most recent research addresses the relationship between inequality, state capacity, organized crime and democratic citizenship in Latin America. He has published "Instead of Optimism. Crisis of Representation in today's Chile" (Catalonia, 2017) and "The unconscious rabble" (Catalonia, 2021). 

The presentation of Dead Democracy will feature the participation of its author and the comments of Marjorie Murrayprofessor at the UC School of Anthropology and researcher at the Millennium Institute VioDemos, and Sergio ToroProfessor at the School of Government , Universidad Mayor and researcher at the Millennium Institute Fundamento de Datos.

This activity will take place on Thursday, December 12 at 6:00 p.m. in Room 202 of the UC Extension Center, Av.s in Room 202 of the Centro de Extensión UC, Av. Lib. Bernardo O'Higgins 390, Santiago.

Those wishing to attend please register at: https://forms.gle/dh3DLCgtXe6n17GK7