Metamorfoses e crise da democracia contemporânea: Limites da ação direta enquanto modelo alternativo ao sistema de democracia representativa no Brasil

Abstract

Democracy has become a major political issues of centuries past and present. This fact arouses the curiosity to understand how societies deal with their participants, its citizens (individually and collectively), consenting or pursuing their rights and freedoms. The contemporary representative democracy is a dual system that has two pillars: the decision-making and opinion. The challenges of contemporary democracies are located in both their first and second: the how the decision-making power is presented and the informal aspect of political judgment, both entwined in the public and private spheres. Currently, the decision-making power, the outcome of freedom of expression and the formation of political opinion seems to be the way a public forum of ideas can be maintained as a public good, monitoring, knowing and radically contrary to the television power and its political effects, given that the information industry in many parts of the world belongs to a small group of private individuals. The use of direct democracy instruments, on both mentioned spheres can add quality to the decision-making process while making it more complex, subject to risks and instabilities to the improvement of democracy itself in Brazil contemporary society