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Congress the DC

Santiago March 12, 2007

political parties according to Klaus von Beyme have four basic functions) Homing (ideologies and programs), b) interest articulation and aggregation social, c) mobilization and socialization of citizens especially in election period, d) recruitment of elites and the formation of governments. In the Chilean case, the parties have compliance diffuse and in some cases minimal.

Moreover, the parties now, as are old or consolidated democracies are in transition mostly popular type of party electoral professional one, but most parties are in the latter type , as is the case of PP and PSOE in Spain, CDU and SPD in Germany, the Conservatives and Labour in England, France, Socialists and Republicans, Democrats and Republicans in the United States between others.

In the Chilean case, the parties are in that transition to electoral professional party. The PPD and UDI are parties with little historical tradition, so they would frame as Katz and Maier called party lineup, on the other hand, is the case of PRSD, PS, RN and especially DC are so-called party popular type.

popular parties are the parties of the leader, the political operator, the patronage of the State. For its part, the electoral professional party is the party of the media, the manager of the opinion polls and ideas.

As in Chile there is a modern party itself, what DC is at stake in the V Congress (August 2006 to October 2007), modernized, like it or not, some of its members than ever flying the flags of past glories. Therefore, the dilemma that is the party of the Falange, is transformed into a professional electoral party or succumb to the passing of the years to disappear, renamed or merged with another party, we already lived the Italian DC and contrary to this the German CDU, in the early '1980s, went from a popular type party electoral professional one, which allowed it to be the largest party in Germany's political system.

While the DC Congress will review and update their principles ideological, the most important thing to leave this conference, and that clearly has to do with their ideas, is related to the transformation into a professional electoral party, namely, a modern party in connection with their constituents and the public, a party Century 21 in bureaucratic structure consistent with a picture and show it as action that modern party, without improvisation and, of course, with a single story, unity and mission.

DC Congress is the opportunity, with the first stage, listening to Chile, is on the correct line, the shut up and listen to what people want to tell the party and with that diagnosis to start designing the future project is based on how people want to see the DC in the coming years.

ideology This thought process is not only good for the DC but also for the entire party system in Chile, which will benefit from a modern party, what will be an influence for the rest. Institutionalized and modern games, help you have a better democracy and, therefore, the quality of life of people.

V. Andres Jouannet Dr.

Political Science University of Heidelberg