GLOBALIZATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT OF BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS

Authors

  • Murilo Gaspardo Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FCHS), São Paulo State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Campus de Franca - SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.37353

Keywords:

Globalization. Political polycentrism. Representative democracy.

Abstract

Due to globalization, the state lost its monopoly on political mediation. For example, it began to share decisions with multiple stakeholders, internal and external, and is not able to control several variables that interfere in national life. This has impacts on the functioning and legitimacy of representative institutions. However, there are paradoxes that accompany them since their beginnings, and semi-peripheral states, like Brazil and other Latin Americans, have some historical-cultural issues such as internal and external sovereignty locks, patrimonial, clientelist, and populist political culture and a society precariously integrated, with deep inequalities, which also explain the problems of democracy. Thus, the purpose of this research was to investigate which characteristic features of the democratic deficit of the Brazilian representative institutions were in fact caused or exacerbated by globalization. Thus, we sought to overcome simplistic analyzes, which attribute all the problems of contemporary democracy to globalization, or else insist on restricting the field of analysis of the limits established by the representative democratic model of territorial base, which presents potential explanatory limited in a context of political polycentrism, and in that the representative institutions reveal themselves incompatible with the demands of social mediation.

Author Biography

Murilo Gaspardo, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FCHS), São Paulo State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Campus de Franca - SP

Graduado em Direito pela Universidade de São Paulo (2005), mestre em Direito do Estado pela Universidade de São Paulo (2009) e doutor em Direito do Estado pela Universidade de São Paulo (2013). Atualmente é professor assistente da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho-UNESP. Tem experiência na área de Direito, com ênfase em Teoria do Estado.

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Published

2014-10-17

How to Cite

Gaspardo, M. (2014). GLOBALIZATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT OF BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 60(1), 85–115. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.37353

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2015)

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