Liberal democracy
Analysis and essays on liberal democracy — individual rights, representative institutions, pluralism, and limits on power.
Liberal democracy combines majority rule with respect for individual rights. Its core: representative institutions, separation of powers, rule of law, and civil liberties exercised within a constitutional framework. Revista Conciencia Democrática publishes analysis and essays on the challenges, threats, and defenses of liberal democracy in the 21st century.
Articles on liberal democracy (7)
- The Permanent Pendulum: the New Shift to the Right and Progressive Marginalization in Latin AmericaThe conservative shift reshapes the Latin American map against a cohesive authoritarian bloc. The central question is no longer which trend wins, but whether institutions can withstand the swing.
- Racism and xenophobia: how do stereotypes degrade the human condition?After the 2026 World Cup, xenophobic attacks on Argentines multiplied. A manifesto against racism, against the fallacy of applying U.S. racial categories to a historically and constitutionally welcoming society, and a defence of human dignity as a non-negotiable principle.
- From Social Democracy to the Third WayThe German SPD, the British Labour, the French Socialist Party, the Turkish CHP: one current, a thousand faces.
- Toward an Architecture of DemocracyFrom the machine for living to the machine for living together. As politics loses itself in immediacy, the true democratic pact breathes in the streets: a journey through the tensions between rigidity and spontaneity, and how public space defines our coexistence.
- Cameroon Learning from Senegalese DemocracyFrom a Cameroonian vantage point, Senegal's recent alternations of power expose the fatigue of a democracy captured by a single man for more than forty years.
- Populism and Trump as an Expression of an Unequal SocietyA political religion that challenges American democracy and, at the same time, expresses a social demand.
- The functional death of the liberal subject: Fragmented language, democracy without intelligibilityThe functional death of the liberal subject: Fragmented language, democracy without intelligibility
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