The counter-political reason: on polls and the anti-electoral country
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https://doi.org/10.20453/ah.v68i2.7507Keywords:
elections, polls, integrity, electoral supply, electoral demand, counter-politicsAbstract
This article does not intend to address the core of the debates surrounding the veracity of electoral polls and their degree of influence. Acknowledging this discussion, it uses it as a starting point to situate the debate within the limits and possibilities of such polls in countries like Peru, which are marked by complex and contradictory phenomena: simultaneous fragmentation and polarization, extreme volatility, disaffection, and a profound lack of legitimacy among political actors. The article delves into the crisis of credibility of polls, pointing out that it is a crisis of information and of electoral truth, reviewing the responses to this crisis—some based on defending the methodology and others that offer political and moral reasons—and adding a central one in Peru: the counter-politics that projects an anti-electoral image of the country. The author believes that the crisis of electoral truth can be overcome through a radical epistemological approach that considers both electoral supply and demand and that does not confuse neutrality with objectivity.
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