Abstract

VARGAS-HERNANDEZ, José G.. From the Government for the People to the Economic Transnational, Global and Cosmopolitan Postdemocracy. cuad.adm. [online]. 2009, n.41, pp.39-55. ISSN 0120-4645.

This paper has as the objective to analyze the evolution and dynamic concept of democracy as an argument of legitimacy of government action. It begins with the analysis of the model of democracy sustained in the values of the political and economic liberalism as a form of political organization capable to equilibrate individual aspirations. The Republican model of democracy is centered in the construction of a public space for citizenship participation. Citizenship participation is limited exercised through of a representative democracy or plenty in the participative democracy. Among dysfunctional of democratic exercise it is analyzed the delegative democracy and the limited scope that has had the social democracy. Finally it is concluded with the emergency of post national posdemocracy which stretches the ties between the ideology of free market which leads to the neoliberal political economy and liberal democracy. This posdemocracy manifests as a transnational economic democracy which promotes free market and the neoliberal and postmodern values at global and cosmopolitan scale, to justify the advancement of economic globalization processes.

Keywords : Democracy; cosmopolitan democracy; economics democracy; global democracy; liberal democracy; participative democracy; representative democracy; posdemocracy.

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