Entre César e o Demos: notas agonísticas sobre a democracia na Venezuela

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Mayra Goulart da
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12414
• topic: Agonism; Populism; Democracy; Agonismo; Populismo; Democracia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA

The thesis presented here aims to contribute to the secular controversy covering the democratic ideal. To this end, I will seek to outline, based on contributions of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, what might be understood as an agonistic model of democracy. This will be done, first, by rescuing the conceptual spectrum that surrounds this model, whose boundaries can be found in the works of Jürgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt, in respect of whom it acquires synthetic features, according to the hypothesis to be pursued in the prologue and the first chapter. Then agonism will be used as a heuristic tool mobilized to answer the following question: Concerning the legal-political order that precedes it, is Hugo Chavez s government a rupture or a continuation ? In accordance to this goal, through the second and third chapters, a narrative will be constructed aiming at the development of the central hypothesis of this study about the relevance of the agonistic model of democracy, perceived as an analytical tool particularly appropriate for the study of the chavist phenomenon. This assumption, in turn, shall be developed in two closely related axes: one descriptive, one normative. Regarding the first one, the focus will be on demonstrating the appropriateness of the Laclaunian concept of populism to the understanding of the type of representative bond established between Hugo Chavez and his voters. Finally, on the second axis, through considerations of Laclau, but mainly Mouffe, some risks inherent in this kind of representation will be pointed out, as well as possible ways to counteract them.