GLOBALIZAÇÃO E O DÉFICIT DEMOCRÁTICO DAS INSTITUIÇÕES REPRESENTATIVAS BRASILEIRAS / GLOBALIZATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT OF BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Due to globalization, the state lost its monopoly on political mediation. For example, it began to share decisions with multiple stakeholders, internal and external, and is not able to control several variables that interfere in national life. This has impacts on the functioning and legitimacy of representative institutions. However, there are paradoxes that accompany them since their beginnings, and semi-peripheral states, like Brazil and other Latin Americans, have some historical-cultural issues such as internal and external sovereignty locks, patrimonial, clientelist, and populist political culture and a society precariously integrated, with deep inequalities, which also explain the problems of democracy. Thus, the purpose of this research was to investigate which characteristic features of the democratic deficit of the Brazilian representative institutions were in fact caused or exacerbated by globalization. Thus, we sought to overcome simplistic analyzes, which attribute all the problems of contemporary democracy to globalization, or else insist on restricting the field of analysis of the limits established by the representative democratic model of territorial base, which presents potential explanatory limited in a context of political polycentrism, and in that the representative institutions reveal themselves incompatible with the demands of social mediation.

Keywords

• Globalization
• Political polycentrism
• Representative democracy