THE VERACITY OF THE CURRENT POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND THE ROLE OF EXPERTS OR THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUALIST POLITICAL MODEL AND THE INTELLIGENT SYSTEM

Abstract

Political discourse is understood in a broad sense that includes both discursive practices of politics as well as the social group’s proposals for political change. It is a set of ideological proposals which actors pretend to build a certain vision of the world, aiming to achieve the adhesion of the citizen to the own political project and to cause changes in the institutions. On the other hand, the politician has to face highly complex dynamics (climate change, sustainability, food security, terrorism, corruption, etc.) being essential the incorporation of the opinions and advice of agencies and independent experts into the current policy. The consequences of all this are that new guidelines of the political speech and the communication between political, experts and citizens are established. In consequence, new patterns of the political discourse and the communication among politicians, experts and citizens are established. Also happens, that citizens question the role of the experts, because do not meet their aspirations. We are therefore in a process of policy expertization, which for some is the simple replacement of the policy by the technocracy as well as the democratization of the work of the experts, demanding them to work in the direction the citizenship want. In this work is analyzed and discussed the discursive relationships among those three agents: political, experts and society.