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La participación como respuesta a la crisis de la representación: el rol de la democracia participativa
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nárdiz, Alfredo Ramírez |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Resumen: El recurrente debate sobre la crisis de la representacion, posiblemente tan antiguo como la representacion misma, adquiere en el presente especial relevancia alrededor de la critica a los partidos politicos y a su rol en la democracia. Si bien el debate y la critica no son nuevos, si que lo es la virulencia con la que en el presente se culpa a los partidos politicos de gran parte de los problemas del modelo democratico, si no de todos, asi como, particularmente, de suponer un freno al desarrollo del mismo, constituyendose incluso en un instrumento para su degeneracion. Con la finalidad de una hipotetica regeneracion democratica, una de las demandas mas habituales es la de una mayor participacion politica de los ciudadanos en los asuntos publicos, asi como una mejor y mas desarrollada fiscalizacion y control de la accion de sus gobernantes. En este sentido, conocer la democracia participativa, entendida como el conjunto de instrumentos participativos que permiten dicha mayor participacion de los ciudadanos en los asuntos publicos, sus elementos mas caracteristicos, sus posibilidades, pero tambien sus carencias, asi como sus potenciales utilidades para, en su caso, contribuir no solo a la regeneracion democratica, sino tambien a la mejora de la democracia, resulta de especial interes en el actual escenario de intensa critica a la democracia representativa. ?Puede la democracia participativa ser una herramienta verdaderamente util para la profundizacion de la democracia? Y, si es asi, ?hay que entenderla como un complemento de la democracia representativa o podria versela incluso como una autentica transformacion del modelo democratico? ?Puede, en definitiva, la democracia participativa, tal y como en el presente se la concibe, ser una respuesta a la crisis de la representacion o no es mas que la actualizacion de las formulas de democracia directa o semi-directa propias de epocas anteriores y tan habitualmente acusadas de ser susceptibles de usos populistas? Contribuir a responder estar preguntas aportando posibles respuestas a las mismas es el objeto de este articulo. Abstract: The recurring debate on representation crisis, possibly as old as representation itself, has in the present special relevance around the critic of the political parties and its role on democracy. Although the debate and the critic are not new, it is indeed the virulence with which the parties are blamed of a big part of the problems of the democratic system if not of all of them, particularly of being an obstacle to the democratic development, or even a tool for its degeneration. With the finality of an hypothetical regeneration of the democratic system, one of the most typical demands is a bigger political participation of the citizens on public affairs as well as a better and more developed auditing and control of their governors action. In this sense, to know participatory democracy, understood as the set of participatory tools that allow that bigger participation of citizens on public affairs, its most characteristic elements, its possibilities, but also its lacks, as well as its potential utilities for, where appropriate, to contribute not only to the democratic regeneration but also to the improvement of the democracy, has an special interest in the present scenario of intense critic to the representative democracy. Can participatory democracy be a really useful tool for democracy´s deepening? And, if that is true, must be understood as a complement to representative democracy or could be seen even as a real transformation of the democratic model? Can, in the end, participatory democracy, as is understood in the present, be an answer to the representation crisis or it is nothing but an actualization of the direct democracy or semi-direct democracy formulas typical of old times and so normally accused of being susceptible of populist uses? To contribute to answer these questions giving possible answers to them is the object of this paper. |
| Starting Page | 177 |
| Ending Page | 210 |
| Page Count | 34 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.5944/rdp.90.2014.13160 |
| Volume Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/derechopolitico/article/download/13160/12133 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.90.2014.13160 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
