INVESTIGADORES
CHERESKY Isidoro
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Citizenship and continuous democracy
Autor/es:
ISIDORO CHERESKY
Lugar:
Montreal
Reunión:
Conferencia; XXIII IPSA World Congress of Political Science; 2014
Resumen:
This article addresses the expansion and mutationof the democratic political regime that hasacquired a universal validity and value, resultingin the centrality of citizenship, understood asa space of individuals who are given rights orotherwise claim them and constitute changingassociative and identity bonds.At the same time there is a questioning ofrepresentation bonds in different orders of socialorganization, resulting in an emancipation ofthe political world. Therefore the conception ofpublic and political life as a mere expression ofsocial realities and the conflicts they entail hasvanished. Interests and ideals are constituted inthe public sphere along with the citizen identitiesthat support them.It is evident that the very institutional andnormative system is in permanent revision andrestructuring, so democracy should be conceivedas an unstable regime, where an autonomouscitizenship keeps distance from power bymaking their rulers renew their legitimacy ineach decision. In fact, the political regime couldbe defined as a continuous democracy whoseessence is citizen life, which requires but doesnot occur within an institutional device; as aconsequence, is not definitive and universalbut subject to the particular mutations thatdemocratic principles require.