Desinformación y derecho de autodeterminación: la población catalana en la diana
(Misinformation and right to self-determination: the Catalan population in the spotlight)
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Desinformación, autodeterminación, Cataluña, misinformation, self-determination, CataloniaAbstract
El verdadero significado y alcance de las leyes es desconocido para la mayoría de la población, como evidencian diversos estudios sobre cultura jurídica en el mundo. Por ello, cuando se difunde información falsa o inexacta sobre cuestiones legales, el impacto en la opinión pública puede ser enorme. Este estudio evidencia que esto ha sucedido, en el llamado conflicto catalán, con el derecho de autodeterminación. Así, mientras los expertos en derecho niegan que Cataluña pueda invocar el “derecho de libre determinación de los pueblos” para obtener su independencia, asociaciones civiles, medios de comunicación y, sobre todo, responsables políticos, aseguran lo contrario, o bien realizan afirmaciones inexactas que, queriendo negar este derecho, aumentan la confusión popular. Como resultado, el discurso polarizado actual en torno a la autodeterminación de Cataluña se construye, al menos en parte, sobre el conocimiento jurídico erróneo de tres cuartas partes de los ciudadanos.
The true meaning and scope of laws is unknown to most of the population, as evidenced by various studies on legal culture around the world. Therefore, whenever false or inaccurate information about legal issues is disseminated, the impact on public opinion can be enormous. This study shows that this has happened, in the so-called Catalan conflict, with respect to the right to self-determination. Thus, while legal experts deny that Catalonia is entitled to invoke the "right to self-determination of peoples" to obtain its independence, some civil associations, the media and, above all, political leaders, claim the opposite or make inaccurate statements which, in an attempt to deny this right, increase popular confusion. As a result, the current polarized discourse around the self-determination of Catalonia is built, at least in part, on the erroneous legal knowledge of three quarters of citizens.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1302
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