Political science has approached the debate about the perception of context of crisis of representative institutions and questions about the existence, or not, of a correlation between the performance of state representatives and the popular will. In the social protests, that took place in June 2013 in Brazil, the expression without representation was coined as a way of synthesizing the distance between representatives and represented citizens. In this dissertation, we analyse the representative system and contrast the ways in which the crisis of representation has been approached in political theory and political philosophy, through the proposals of democratic participation and theory of recognition, interspersed with national political thought, to argue that the rejection of traditional political representation reveals new forms of political action, such as through participation in so-called collective groups.