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- Title
DEMOCRACIA e POPULISMO: QUEM É O POVO?
- Authors
Barzotto, Luis Fernando
- Abstract
This article proposes a conceptual distinction between democracy and populism based on the different conceptions of people presupposed by each of these political regimes. The thesis to be defended is that democracy is inspired by the concept of people as demos, that is, as a community of citizens, whereas populism is based on the concept of people as ochlos, as a mass of individuals. The distinction between the conceptions of people will be drawn from the notion of citizenship that was present for the first time in Greek democracy, characterized by the following elements: isegoria (equality in speech), isocracy (equality in power) and isonomy (equality before the law ). The community of citizens proper to democracy is thus opposed to the people in populism, since it is characterized by a univocity that dispenses with speech, a unanimity that avoids the rule of the majority and a uniformity that is not given by a law equal for everyone. The method followed will be to explain the conceptual characteristics of the people in the regimes in focus.
- Subjects
EQUAL rights; POPULISM; EQUALITY; CITIZENSHIP; DEMOCRACY
- Publication
Quaestio Iuris (QI), 2019, Vol 12, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
1807-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/rqi.2019.37578