Democracy and active citizenship in Brazil: a critical analysis in the ligtht of Giovanni Sartori’s democratic theory

• Autor(a) principal: Monnazzi, Ricardo Nogueira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silva, Juvêncio Borges, Cirino, Luís Felipe Ramos, Silveira, Ricardo dos Reis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica Pesquiseduca
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unisantos.br/pesquiseduca/article/view/1027
• topic: Democracia. Cidadania. Brasileira. Teorias democráticas; Democracia. Cidadania. Brasileira. Teorias democráticas

The purpose of this article is to make a brief exposition on Giovanni Sartori’s main pillars, concepts, tools and distinctions about democracy and, in particular, what he considered as possible and ideal democracy, based on his parameters or tools that would make it concrete as well as the bonds between democracy and citizenship in its concrete state, since it remains associated with the discussion about the virtualities and perspectives of democratic consolidation in Brazil. Moreover, it is mandatory to discuss the importance of implementing the mechanisms of direct democracy provided for in the 1988 Constitution, such as the referendum, the plebiscite and the popular initiative, as forms of political participation that complement the mechanisms of representative democracy. The theme is relevant as it involves the attempt to make citizenship concrete and the evaluation of whether our democracy is ideal or possible in this light or even how democratic it would be before the models and concepts of classical doctrine. Therefore, we conducted a literature review about the theme analyzing the classic democratic theory by Giovanni Sartori, among others, and its connection to the concretization of citizenship. Therefore, we applied the deductive approach method, together with the bibliographical research technique, through the doctrinal analysis on the subject. Keywords: Democracy. Citizenship. Brazilian. Democratic theories