This interview was conducted by Javier Toro.
Leonardo Morlino is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Free International University for Social Studies “Guido Carli” and former President of the International Political Science Association. He is the author of Changes for Democracy: Actors, Structures, Processes.
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The question about what good democracy is has been at the core of political philosophy for centuries. And it is difficult to say unequivocally what exactly it is because good democracy is a normative notion. That is, its definition depends on who you ask. Each citizen can have its own [...]
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Translation:
Democracy, as the article says, is handled in intangible extandars, that of not living conscious of its dynamism we lose the assertive notion of this reality, to the point that the indiidum that is born in an ideologically political model. It acquires a subjective notion of political reality, well it is true that in the case of vémezuela and cuba the leadership is communist it is also true that its sense populates really and in its essence its democratic sense in cuba in a redical way, and in venezuela although there are certain freedoms these are conditioned and under-questioned by populist principles motivated from the state, generating a convenient democracy, If we speak of democratic csility, I will be aiming at citizen participation, independent action and the process of social transformation in which the citizen is an active and pro-active entity ...