Las cuentas pendientes de la democracia liberal, las causas de su crisis y las nuevas formas de representación democrática (y su legitimidad)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to take part in the current debate around democracy: to identify its main characteristics as an idea and as a political system. In that sense, its focus is on the main existing differences between “the ancient democracy” and “the modern democracy” in order to know its speech components as a liberal democracy. As a legitimacy principle during the last decades, democracy has experienced a questioning that has caused a crisis that requires being analyzed, in order to know the causes that deteriorated it when they questioned themselves regarding some of the basic principles, while new forms of democratic representation such as populism and the recent autocracies search for legitimation.