Democratic evolution between institutionalization and spontaneity: Challenges to contemporary democratic politics
In the text I criticize the excessive importance given to institutionalization as the core of democratic dynamics, correlatively to minimization of the importance given to spontaneity of initiatives by the citizen and social movements as political subjects capable of conducting decision-making polit...
| Autor: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/23254 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/23254 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Modernization. Institutionalism. Spontaneity. Democracy. Power. Modernização. Institucionalismo. Espontaneidade. Democracia. Poder. |
| Sumario: | In the text I criticize the excessive importance given to institutionalization as the core of democratic dynamics, correlatively to minimization of the importance given to spontaneity of initiatives by the citizen and social movements as political subjects capable of conducting decision-making political processes and managing autonomously specific fields of social life. That situation conducts to reduction of democratic politics to representative politics, and to monopolization of political power by political parties. Here is revealed the worse problem that must be faced today: the deeply imbrication between political institutions, political parties, and economic oligarchies; the centrality of the institutionalization inhibiting social spontaneity as the core of democratic dynamics. I defend that the overcoming of this problem needs to invert the current democratic dynamics: spontaneity of citizen initiatives and social movements should gain primacy over institutionalism, what means the decentralization of decision-making political processes and forms of social life management. |
|---|