A CONSTRUÇÃO DO CONCEITO MODERNO DE DEMOCRACIA: VERSÃO INICIAL DE UM PROJETO DE PESQUISA

Abstract

The need to research how the modern concept of was built and how the version - representative, formal, electoral and limited - became hegemonic generated a collective research project which will be developed by the Research Group Democracy and Development, bound the course of Social Sciences Unioeste campus of Toledo, in the coming years. Following the initial reflection that justified the project: after presenting the theme, we underline our theoretical framework and what the justification for a search. Our research problem unfolds in some theoretical questions: what is the difference between the classical and the modern conception of democracy? What are the essential differences between the classical Athenian and modern that arises in the United States and Europe with the establishment of capitalism? Why, from the beginning of establishment of Western modernity, the historical forces involved in the construction of modern constitutional principles shifted the original meaning of government by the demo to government by the owners? How important the development of the European labor movement had on the expansion of the modern concept of beyond its sense? What would be the operational concept of democracy? What is your connection with the classical concept of (Athenian democracy)? The overall objective is to investigate how the modern concept of was formed from the beginning of Western modernity and identify the elements that distinguish the Athenian classic. In addition, we intend to investigate the historical process that led to the crystallization of the contents of the modern concept of identify and characterize the specific content of the concept of liberal democracy; investigate the role of the lower classes, especially the European labor movement, the democratization of liberalism and the expansion of the modern concept of identify and characterize the specific content of the concept of socialist democracy; identify the distinctions between the concepts of liberal democracy and socialist democracy; and, finally, to produce an operational concept of Socialist democratic, able to define the essential properties and characteristics of the various historical forms. To this end, we have adopted as a research procedure the methodology of the social history of political theory or social contextualism, which allows a reinterpretation of the classics of politics who wrote about democracy, an important step for the further development of an operational concept of that combines freedom with substantive equality. It is an intellectual and practical exercise that not only seeks to produce a concept of as well as think as people's participation in politics could be made without leaving the scope of citizenship is emptied.