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by Gene Sharp

ISBN: 1-880813-09-2

Published: May 2002, June 2003

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In recent years various dictatorships—of both internal and external origin—have collapsed or stumbled when confronted by defiant, mobilized people. Often seen as firmly entrenched and impregnable, some of these dictatorships proved unable to withstand the concerted political, economic, and social defiance of the people.

Since 1980 dictatorships have collapsed before the predominantly nonviolent defiance of people in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Slovenia, Madagascar, Mali, Bolivia, and the Philippines. Nonviolent resistance has furthered the movement toward democratization in Nepal, Zambia, South Korea, Chile, Argentina, Haiti, Brazil, Uruguay, Malawi, Thailand, Bulgaria, Hungary, Zaire, Nigeria, and various parts of the former Soviet Union (playing a significant role in the defeat of the August 1991 attempted hard-line coup d’état).

In addition, mass political defiance has occurred in China, Burma, and Tibet in recent years. Although those struggles have not brought an end to the ruling dictatorships or occupations, they have exposed the brutal nature of those repressive regimes to the world community and have provided the populations with valuable experience with this form of struggle.

The collapse of dictatorships in the above named countries certainly has not erased all other problems in those societies: poverty, crime, bureaucratic inefficiency, and environmental destruction are often the legacy of brutal regimes. However, the downfall of these dictatorships has minimally lifted much of the suffering of the victims of oppression, and has opened the way for the rebuilding of these societies with greater political democracy, personal liberties, and social justice.

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Democracia participativa y liberalismo político
Participative democracy and political liberalism
La démocratie participative et le libéralisme politique

Autor / Author

HOYOS VASQUEZ, Guillermo; Universidad de Murcia, Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica, Murcia

Afiliación del autor / Author Affiliation

⁽¹⁾ Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá, COLOMBIA

Reseña / Abstract

The point of departure for this essay is the evaluation of democracy in Latin America, in particular, Colombian democracy following the new, 1991 Constitution. Special emphasis is placed upon the phenomena of violence, corruption and abstentionism, while a solution for these problems is sought in the strengthening of democracy in the specific form of participatory democracy, understood as a more authentic version capable of incorporating diverse cultures, classes and social movements. Recent discussions in contemporary moral and political philosophy help to clarify the meaning of participatory democracy through a reconstruction of the debate between J. Habermas' discourse ethics and radical democracy, and J. Rawls' political liberalism, which has in tum been challenged by the liberal and communitarian critiques of R. Dworkin and M. Sandel, respectively.

El punto de partida de este ensayo es la evaluación de la democracia en América Latina, en particular, de la democracia colombiana a partir de la nueva Constitución de 1991.  Hace especial énfasis en el fenómeno de la violencia, la corrupción y el abstencionismo, en tanto que ofrece una solución para la democracia, comprendida como una versión más auténtica y capaz de incorporar diversas culturas, clases y movimientos sociales.   Debates recientes sobre la moral y la filosofía política contemporáneas contribuyen a aclarar el significado de la democracia participativa a tavés de una reconstrucción del debate entre el discurso de la ética y la democracia radical de J. Habermas y el liberalismo político de J. Rawls, a la luz del desafío crítico liberal y comunitario de R. Dworkin y M. Sandel, respectivamente.

Revista / Journal Title

Daím?n (Daím?n), Nº15  ISSN 1130-0507

Idioma / Language

Español / Spanish

Editor / Publisher

Varios autores, "Hermenéutica Jurídica", Ediciones Rosaristas, Bogotá, 1997 (págs.241-252)
También en Daímon, Revista de Filosofía, Nº15, Univ. de Murcia, 1997 (págs.83-92)

Localización / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 22648, 35400007152755.0070

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