Abstract
This bibliographic essay aims to reconsider the propositions of Joseph Schumpeter’s democratic minimalism and, through this exercise, to examine how its conceptual core is amplified in the effective funcioning of democracy. After a brief analysis of the schumpeterian minimalism, we present some criticisms that were directed to it from the 1960s onwards. Finally, based on O’Donnell, Saffon and Urbinati, we propose an extension of proceduralism so that it contemplates a normative dimension. This theoretical-conceptual discussion, however limited, is relevant today in the occasion of the challenges faced by social scientists to identify with scientific rigor which countries are indeed democratic – despite holding periodic elections.
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