About Constant´s footprint: the crisis of representation and the return to citizen participation

Authors

  • Maria Laura Eberhardt Universidad de Buenos Aires - Proyecto de investigación Ubacyt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-4485.lev.2013.132332

Keywords:

Citizenship, Freedom, Political Participation

Abstract

This article begins with the Constant´s view about how the notion of freedom was built in different historical times, starting with the positive freedom of the ancient Greeks to the conceptualization of negative freedom of modern age.

This position invites deepening on the concomitant process of building citizenship for different philosophical perspectives and democratic environments to which they relate, and concluded that the two opposite ways of perceiving political participation (direct, personal and active for Athenians and indirect, passive and representative for modern individuals) become complementary in contemporary democratic republics.

Such coexistence and complementarity of the two notions of political freedom nowadays, appears as the foundation of one of the solutions offered to the crisis of mass representation model since the early '80s: the creation of mechanisms of popular participation driven by the rulers for their use by citizens.

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Author Biography

  • Maria Laura Eberhardt, Universidad de Buenos Aires - Proyecto de investigación Ubacyt
    Doctora en Ciencia Política (UNSAM), Magíster en Ciencia Política y Sociología (FLACSO), Licenciada en Ciencia Política (UBA), Posdoctoranda de la Facultad de Derecho (UBA), Profesora Titular de Sociología en la UNAJ, Profesora Adjunta de Ciencia Política en la UBA y Profesora Adjunta de Taller de Tesis en la UNLM. Directora de proyecto de investigación Ubacyt (UBA), Investigadora formada de  proyecto de investigación Proince (UNLM) y Directora de Proyecto de Redes Universitarias (UNAJ). Fue becaria doctoral, postdoctoral y de estadías posdoctorales en el exterior del CONICET. Fue expositora en numerosos congresos internacionales (LASA Puerto Rico, Montreal, Río de Janeiro y Toronto; ALACIP Costa Rica y Buenos Aires; CLAD Buenos Aires, entre otros). Es autora de libros como el Manual de Sociología (UNAJ, 2012) y Siga participando (Prometeo, en prensa) y de numerosos capítulos y artículos en Revistas académicas

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Published

2013-12-01

Issue

Section

Political Theory

How to Cite

Eberhardt, M. L. (2013). About Constant´s footprint: the crisis of representation and the return to citizen participation. Leviathan (São Paulo), 7, 1-43. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-4485.lev.2013.132332