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HERNANDEZ ARTEAGA, Laura. Niklas Luhmann, a Systemic Theory of Democracy?. Estud. polít. (Méx.) [online]. 2018, n.43, pp.11-34. ISSN 0185-1616.

The work reconstructs the conception of the democracy from the perspective of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems. Luhmann's political sociology, inscribed in the theory of self-referential and autopoietic social systems, is a heuristic referent to approach the phenomenon of the democracy in the view of a theoretical approach that transcends the traditional boundaries of contemporary political science; it is a sociological perspective that condenses a multidisciplinary concoction that seeks to delineate theoretical elements to explain phenomena of the contemporary political reality.

Palavras-chave : Theory of Social Systems; Luhmann; Political System; Democracy; Political Communications.