The challenges of democracy: participative democracy as complement of representative democracy

  • Alfredo Ramírez Nárdiz Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Keywords: Law, Participative Democracy, Representative Democracy, Citizenship Participation, participative tool

Abstract

Participative Democracy is one of the areas of the legal and political theory and practice that in the last years is being developed in a stronger way. Nowadays we check that the appeal to the citizenship is not decreasing but, particularly in some territorial scopes, appears with intensity as option or solution to give legitimacy to the decisions coming from representative institutions that are suffering a period of intense social critic. To know the historical and doctrinal origin of the Participative Democracy, to distinguish it from other close concepts, to understand the tools of which it is formed and to calculate in which areas it has bigger future development possibilities is, now more than never, of special relevance.

Published online: 25 November 2014

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Author Biography

Alfredo Ramírez Nárdiz, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Profesor doctor de Derecho constitucional
Published
2014-11-25
How to Cite
Ramírez Nárdiz, Alfredo. 2014. “The Challenges of Democracy: Participative Democracy As Complement of Representative Democracy”. Estudios De Deusto 61 (1), 271-94. https://doi.org/10.18543/ed-61(1)-2013pp271-294.
Section
Studies