The Crossroads of Democracy in Venezuela: the Emergence of the Popular Power
| Autor: | G Hernández, José Ignacio |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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representative regime
021110 strategic defence & security studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Direct democracy 02 engineering and technology Public administration participatory democracy Democracy 0506 political science Representative democracy Popular Power Pluralism (political theory) Political science 050602 political science & public administration pluralism Participatory democracy Law socialism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Politeja, Vol 10, Iss 2 (24) (2013) |
| ISSN: | 2391-6737 1733-6716 |
| Popis: | The paper analyzes one of the main political instruments of the current regime of President Chávez in Venezuela: the Popular Power, as a new conception of democracy within socialist model. We studied the origins of such instrument and its current legal framework, in order to demonstrate how Popular Power constitutes a violation of constitutional concept of democracy, due to its lack of freedom and pluralism. The Popular Power is articulated in the Laws promulgated in 2010, as an organization that acts under the political control of the National Government, with the sole purpose of the consolidation of the socialism and the construction of a “new” State, the “Communal State”. According to the Laws of the Popular Power, socialism is not only the political doctrine of the Government’s party, but also the political doctrine of the State, that excludes any form of political participation different to the ones executed through the organizations of the Popular Power and for the promotion of socialism. In the end, the emergence of the Popular Power in Venezuela demonstrates the risk of the manipulation of the language of democracy for political purposes that are the antithesis of democracy. |
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