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ESCUTIA-MIRANDA, Ricardo  e  TORRES-RUIZ, René. Polyarchy and citizenship in state of Mexico. Polít. globalidad. ciudad. [online]. 2021, vol.7, n.14, pp.126-151.  Epub 04-Nov-2022. ISSN 2395-8448.  https://doi.org/10.29105/pgc7.14-7.

This article is the product of a qualitative research, where through process tracing and documentary analysis, the theoretical debate of democracy and citizenship is contrasted to the reality of the state of Mexico and the way in which these meanings operate, the objective is to identify how these categories are understood and put into practice. For this, a tour is made on the theoretical debate of democracy and its relationship with the citizen, later, it is described how the categories are established and observed in the political constitution of the entity, as well as the rights and obligations of Mexico, with the purpose to contrast the theoretical discourse with reality. The results point to the operationalization of a procedural democracy with a tendency to what Robert Dahl calls polyarchy, a government of competing elites, which allows representativeness, certain levels of participation, opposition and alternation, while discouraging political participation outside electoral processes.

Palavras-chave : Citizenship; polyarchy; political elites; state of Mexico; subnational democracy.