Sense of Democracy in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela in the 21st Century

• Autor(a) principal: Lucca, Juan Bautista
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Pinillos, Cintia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Revista Debates
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/debates/article/view/62467
• topic: Ecuador; Venezuela; Bolivia; Democracy; Constitutional Reform.; Ecuador; Venezuela; Bolivia; Democracia; Reforma Constitucional.

This work analyzes the semantic developments around the notion of democracy that appear in the process of constitutional reform in the first decade of the century in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. First, it will analyze how the incorporation of direct democracy are presented as an instance where different developing new democratic practices (in design or mechanical) to its classic liberal version. Secondly, we will analyze to what extent this longing for new democratic ways tenses the main actors of classical representative version, what are the political parties, and to what extent this opens space for new subjects or modes of representation. Thus it will be seen how, in the cracks of representative liberal tradition of democracy, these cases seem to find new "ways" of democracy that clearly are condensed in the moment in which the constituent power wants to mold their policy planning and designing a new political constitution.