Los nuevos escenarios transnacionales y la democracia asimétrica

Laburpena

This article addresses Representative Democracy and its inadequacy to deal with new asymmetric environments of complex societies, considering the asymmetric nature of its representativity, and, as urgent as it is, the need for a reevaluation of its current models so that they meet adequately the current demands for participation. Globalization forces reflection on Democracy of modern times and questioning about the issues of its foundations, about the instituions which guarantee its exercise and about its limits. The hypotheses of this article are based on the premise that authentic participation in the Nation can only be achieved when all those involved feel they are participating in spirit. The renewal of democratic theory is based, above all, on the formulation of democratic participation criteria that are not restricted to the act of voting. Participatory Democracy must represent a more advanced stage of the concept of Democracy - as a social value and not only as a procedure. The general objective is to demonstrate that Modern Representative Democracy could neither reach other forms of life outside politics, nor in any other political orders, different from those restricted to the Modern Constitutional State. Behind the theories which seek to orient the adoption of “democracies” capable of co-existing with diversity , complexity, solidarity and participation, there exists an irrefutable optimism regarding the possibility of elaborating what could be called a democratic theory for the new stage created by globalization.