Abstract

GARGARELLA, ROBERTO. For a Citizen Democracy without "Shortcuts". On Democracy without Shortcuts, by Cristina Lafont. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2023, n.spe55, pp.125-139.  Epub May 09, 2023. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n55.08.

This is a critical review of Cristina Lafont's work, Democracy without Shortcuts. This paper deals with three of the issues addressed by Lafont in her book: the value of "mini-audiences" in the context of a radical crisis of representation, such as the one we are experiencing; the democratic problem posed by the intervention of the courts in the (final) decision of controversial matters of public interest (an intervention that the author emphatically encourages, in her work); and the limits of a vision that she proposes that reduces the role of citizens to an intervention aimed at presenting "challenges" against the decisions made by public authorities.

Keywords : Democracy; deliberation; citizen assemblies; participation; epistocracy.

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