Abstract
The current global crisis has placed every democratic political system in a critical situation. Because of this, studies on Democracy and political forms have recovered the prominence that they once had in Political Science. One issue that is inevitably essential when studying the quality and effort of a democratic regime is the condition of its political elite. This article questions the relationship between the academic level of the legislative political elite and the economic, social and political situation in which it governs. Initially, the article intended to open a line of research that could help us to find an answer and thereby improve the quality of existing democracies