Dos institutos de democracia semidireta (plebiscito, referendo e iniciativa popular) como fontes de fortalecimento da cidadania ativa

• Autor(a) principal: Sanson, Alexandre
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23898
• topic: democracia semidireta; soberania popular; participação política; cidadania ativa; semidirect democracy; popular sovereignty; politics participation; active citizenship; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO

The Federal Constitution on the 1988 proclamation its first article to set the Federative Republic of Brazil in Democratic State under law. The democracy concept retraces to the existence of a State in the form desired and assented for the people, treating themselves, in a context the governmental function exercise where the popular sovereign will decide, directly or indirectly, being the people always the bearer and the object of all legitimate power. However, the indirect democracy is far from effectively in an actuality giving fulfillment to its theoretical intentions, allowing itself to affirm that the representative system faces a serious and inevitable crisis. Becomes necessary to initiate a movement of renewal of the democracy politics conception, to proposals of reorganization on the State, allowing a bigger mediation of the government, to order to directly approach it of quarrels and deliberations that occurred to its, influencing in the abilities until then privatively granted the state agencies. The semidirect democracy, which is a kind of participative democracy, allows to the citizen to the exercise concrete for the popular participation in the public, trought the overcoming of the dualism between society and State, in way on the people, object of the deliberations of the government, becomes to be influenced actively in the routes of the collective, n the presentation of proposals as administrative incentive to the production of norms and acts, or for the approve or rejection of measure in the representative agencies. The plebiscite, the referenda and popular initiative, demand a routine that who is governing must promote a gradual process improvement in the people s discernment of the State structure, which, though the biggest access on politics information, will developing a necessary critical sense to participate and to guide the States' action.