Desde la década de los noventa, el debate teórico y político ha hecho énfasis en el papel que pueden y deben jugar los movimientos sociales en la consolidación de la democracia. Este artículo busca ...analizar si los movimientos sociales latinoamericanos han logrado una mayor inclusión política y cómo dicha inclusión, beneficia o no, la consolidación democrática, apoyándose en investigaciones propias sobre los movimientos sociales en Ecuador. Para esto, es preciso hacer un balance crítico enfatizando dos conjuntos de planteamientos: el primero se refiere a la persistente crisis de la democracia y los debates actuales que se generan en torno a las maneras de lograr su consolidación, en perspectiva comparada; y el segundo, a los alcances y límites reales de las reformas de los años noventa a favor de dicha consolidación democrática. En este sentido, el caso ecuatoriano genera múltiples interrogantes, ya que hasta 1997 se percibía como un caso exitoso de democratización, en tanto que hoy por hoy, se ha convertido en un caso paradigmático de inestabilidad política.
One of the most distinguished and anguished scholars of the last century, Delio Cantimori, dedicated his life to the whole of the Reformation and heretics. He taught us the dangers of anachronism and ...of slipping into “metahistory,” as happened to the Harvard historian Peter Viereck.¹ I believe that the path I have followed through the pages of the varied literature of anti-Jewish propaganda, all sharing the samesocialstereotypes, is also a way of reconstructing on new bases the long history that led, without any teleological predestination, to Auschwitz: in this case, the link between the past and the future
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction: The Politics of Society
Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age
Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal
The Crisis ...of Democracy
Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?
Provider: Czech digital library/Česká digitální knihovna - Institution: Academy of Sciences Library/Knihovna Akademie věd ČR - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Claus Offe.- Obsahuje seznam ...literatury- The paper explores the possible contributions of deliberative procedures of political will formation to solving the problems encountered by liberal democracies today. To begin with, four functions of liberal democracy are distinguished: securing international peace, guaranteeing legal as well as political peace domestically, and producing good active citizens. The following part of the argument distinguishes four structural features characteristic of democratic regimes: stateness, rule of law, political competition, and accountability of the rulers. Thirdly, a brief summary of critical accounts concerning democracy’s actual failures and symptoms of malfunctioning is presented. In the final section, two families of institutional innovations that are currently being proposed as remedies for the observed deficiencies of democracy are explored: those leading to a better aggregation of given preferences of the citizens and those aimed at improving the process of preference formation itself. It is the latter, which constitutes the field of deliberative politics that is investigated at some length. Beneficial effects of deliberative procedures and essential features of deliberative structures are discussed with reference to latest developments in the theory and empirical research on deliberative democracy.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Autor analizira simptome krize demokracije u Europi koncentrirajući se na tri skupine simptoma: u prvom redu na simptome krize u tranzicijskim zemljama koje su ušle u članstvo Europske unije u okviru ...petog proširenja; jedan je od glavnih indikatora te krize slab odaziv glasača iz tranzicijskih zemalja na izbore za Europski parlament godinu dana nakon ulaska u članstvo EU-a. Razlog tog podbačaja autor vidi u razočaranosti demokracijom i tranzicijom te u formalnom udovoljenju kopenhaškim kriterijima, uslijed čega su odmah nakon ulaska u EU nove zemlje članice svoju zadaću demokratizacije smatrale dovršenom.Drugi je simptom krize negativan ishod referenduma za ratifi kaciju ugovora kojim se uspostavlja Ustav za Europu u Francuskoj i Nizozemskoj, što je pokrenulo lančanu reakciju odbacivanja osnovnih instrumenata demokratizacije EU-a koje su zemlje članice prethodno prihvatile i s kojima su se u potpunosti suglasile. Treći element krize demokracije jest demokratski defi cit u EU-u i različito viđenje načina kako da se on prevlada, jačanjem federalističkih elemenata EU-a ili interguvernmentalnih procedura. Na kraju se konstatira da u suvremenoj Europi postoje tri modela demokracije, po uzoru na Siedentopovu klasifi kaciju modela privlačnosti demokracije, i da je kriza demokracije u Europi potencijalno opasna za daljnji razvoj europskih društava jer se pobjedom nad komunizmom nije ostvario očekivani trijumf demokracije, nego je demokracija u Europi izložena nasrtajima raznih oblika političke patologije, uz deziluziju i neispunjena očekivanja.
Anti-democratic governments are wary of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) owing to the latter's important role in ensuring that the government acts according to public interest. Unfortunately, ...some governments are trying to hinder the functions of NGOs, creating an unfavorable image for them and causing a lack of trust. Despite their poor financial condition and strong dependence on state aid, Polish NGOs play their democratic role by supporting society in various areas. This study finds that the NGO values of openness, tolerance and selflessness prevent NGOs from having an unfavorable and untrustworthy image in the eyes of the public and the media.
As illiberal and authoritarian trends are on the rise—both in fragile and in seemingly robust democracies—there is growing concern about the longevity of liberalism and democracy. The purpose of this ...volume is to draw on the analytical resources of various disciplines and public policy approaches to reflect on the current standing of liberal democracy. Leading social scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds aim to examine the ideological and structural roots of the current crisis of liberal democracies, in the West and beyond, conceptually and empirically.
The volume is divided into two main parts:
Part I explores tensions between liberalism and democracy in a longer- term, historical perspective to explain immanent vulnerabilities of liberal democracy. Authors examine the conceptual foundations of Western liberal democracy that have shaped its standing in the contemporary world. What lies at the core of illiberal tendencies?
Part II explores case studies from the North Atlantic, Eastern Europe, Turkey, India, Japan, and Brazil, raising questions whether democratic crises, manifested in the rise of populist movements in and beyond the Western context, differ in kind or only in degree. How can we explain the current popular appeal of authoritarian governments and illiberal ideas?
The Emergence of Illiberalism will be of great interest to teachers and students of politics, sociology, political theory, and comparative government.
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