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Delegative Democracy?

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posted on 2024-06-28, 16:05 authored by Guillermo O'Donnell
Abstract This paper presents a first result of ongoing research on emerging forms of democracy in contemporary Latin America. The author argues that it may be necessary to conceptualize a new type of "delegative" democracy, as different in some crucial respects from the "representative" democracy that has been theorized in the existing literature. The emergence and workings of delegative democracy are seen as closely interwoven with the deep social and economic crisis that some Latin American countries are undergoing. But those relationships remain to be worked out by research in progress. Resumen Este ensayo presenta los resultados iniciales de una investigación en curso sobre las formas emergentes de la democracia en la América Latina contemporánea. El autor sostiene la necesidad de conceptualizar un nuevo tipo de democracia "delegativa" que difiere en algunos aspectos cruciales de la democracia "representativa" que ha sido teorizada en la literatura existente. El surgimiento y el funcionamiento de la democracia delegativa se encuentran estrechamente vinculados con la profunda crisis social y económica por la que están pasando algunos países latinoamericanos. La especificación de estos vínculos constituye una tarea a realizar en la investigación en curso.

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