(Personal notes of Andrea Greppi's exposition entitled
"Democracy and its conditions" in the Seminar "Constitution,
justice and democracy", organized by the Constitutional Studies Center of
the Supreme Court. May 15, 2018. Mexico City. Alterio in the comments)
For the Greppi democracy is a set of rules to make
decisions, believes that the discussion about the substantive or procedural
definitions of democracy is wrong, while the "field" in which the
democratic game is practiced must have certain characteristics, what is
necessarily a substantive issue.
He proposes that we ask ourselves today what are the
conditions that allow the existence of democracy? Inquisition that considers
relevant given that the standard theory has entered into crisis to explain the
relations between conditions and system result from the counterflow of the last
wave democratic, which was assumed unstoppable.
Considering the data of Freedom House, Greppi affirms
that in the last twelve years the indices of freedom in the world fell, and
that this situation affects not only the weak democracies but also the
consolidated ones, including some important countries in the international community, such as Russia and Turkey, without forgetting the biggest
setbacks in the United States with the election of Donald Trump.
In his assessment studies on the quality of democracy
obviate the understanding of concepts; besides that the accumulation of data
requires interpretation.
It emphasizes that our democracies are less
representative, it is hard to believe today that the laws and their application
reflect the popular will, The imaginary mechanism that allowed the citizen to
assume in the place of the head of state and make the same decisions. To a
great extent, this crisis is due to the lack of communication between politicians
and citizens, motivated in large part because the complex decision-making
process that affects the whole community is not communicated.
Parliaments have the virtue of making visible the
reasons why decisions are made, which is vital at a time when a good part of
the law has ceased to be formally legislated ("soft law")
It is necessary to find mechanisms that allow us to
see ourselves reflected as a society, mirrors to see how we really are and to
show us our inequalities and pending. A fundamental issue is how is virtue
produced? since democracies require it.
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