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- Title
IGLESIA CATÓLICA Y DEMOCRACIA PARTICIPATIVA Y PROTAGÓNICA EN VENEZUELA.
- Authors
Maya, Margarita López
- Abstract
During the administration of Hugo Chávez, Venezuela went through a political regime change that transformed it from a representative to a participatory and protagonist democracy. In this article, I present my research findings on the Catholic origins of the concept of participation that appears in the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999. In the first part, I reconsider notions of participation elaborated in the Second Vatican Council. Second, I show how those ideas became the basis for participatory political proposals of the Social Christian party Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente (COPEI). Third, I compare these ideas with the ideas on participation of the Venezuelan Left. The fourth and fifth parts examine the notion of participation in the proposals of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE) and in the failed constitution reform of 1992, where the principle of participation was introduced for the first time, and later successfully integrated into the 1999 Constitution.
- Subjects
LATIN America; PARTICIPATORY democracy; VENEZUELAN politics &; government, 1935-; CATHOLIC Church &; politics; CATHOLIC Church &; social problems; COPEI (Political party : Venezuela); SOCIAL participation; VATICAN Council (2nd : 1962-1965); CATHOLIC Church; LEFT-wing extremism; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2014, Vol 49, p45
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lar.2014.0054