Le promesse non mantenute della democratizzazione
- ISSN: 0394-1248
- Revista: Teoría política
- Número: 1
- Fecha de publicación: 1 de Enero de 2011
Twenty-five years after Bobbio first developed his thesis of the unkept promises of democracy his views still hold. It is possible to claim that globalisation as well as the normative issues emerging from the combination of European constitutional democracies with forms that show at least some signs of International and multicultural democracy have favoured the development of new institutional arrangements and novel forms of transnational associations. But they have also stressed the involutions and pathologies contrasting with the project of modern democracy. Over the last years, the optimistic forecasts focusing on an unstoppable progress of market, democracy and constitutionalism have given way to a diagnosis that a) tends to minimize the positive correlation between globalisation and constitutional democracy, b) lays emphasis on the negative consequences that the first may have on the latter, c) worsens the impact of globalisation on constitutional democracy. The paper aims to give an overview of these transformations and their impact on the promises of democracy in relation to the backlash of the third wave of democratisation.
