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Occasional Paper Series COD #9
Democracy Without Citizens
Silvia Gómez Tagle. [Autora de Artículo]
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Sur-Sur.
CLACSO. CODESRIA. APISA.
Buenos Aires.
Enero de 2008
*Disponible sólo en versión digital
This paper aims at discussing the opportunities and the threats that democratic regimes face today in southern countries. More than twenty years ago, Bobbio warned of the risks incurred by a democracy in the absence of an active, critical, and well-organized citizenry that continually puts pressure on its country's rulers and the leaders of its political parties, since "when politics are sequestered by just a few citizens, the richest and the powerful, in order to satisfy their interests and perpetuate their mandate, the citizenry loses interest in politics" (Bobbio 1986:25). In such cases, even when they exist in a formal sense, democratic institutions are bereft of all content. |
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