Uma análise sobre a “crise da democracia” em Bauman, Zizek, Sennett e Beck

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the existing democracy crisis Idea in Bauman, Zizek, Sennett and Beck while we seek to understand the interpretation of these authors in relation to the general characteristics of the state. Although the idea of the crisis of democracy is a recidivist in political science, the various existing concepts associated with different theoretical fields reveal the existence of different perspectives on the role of democracy, political participation and the State. To understand the crisis idea, we will present several theorical discussions that incorporate the crisis of democracy in the political analysis of contemporary times; neoliberal versions understand the crisis of democracy as a direct result of the excesses of political participation and social demands, and that would result in fiscal deficit and inflation; we discuss the prospects that understand the crisis of capitalist democracy as a recurring process directly related to the limitations of the state end the crisis in capitalism and even the design of post-democracy that aims to characterize a specific time subtraction of social rights in relation to an earlier time eminently democratic. Anyway, it is essential to understand how the interpretations of political science have influenced one way or another, the productions of sociology studied here. Analyses of political sociology incorporate a crisis of democracy perspective that differs qualitatively from the dominant liberal democracy of ideas in the academy. While in contemporary democracy political science is characterized by electoral process, adopting proportionality criteria for the administration of political districts and vote, the design of Bauman, Sennett and Beck lists the meaning of democracy to the effectiveness of social rights guaranteed by the State. In the case of Zizek, the bourgeois State is presented as the other side of the bourgeois dictatorship, a form of government that hides the possibility of repressive actions of the state as a guarantee of the interests of the ruling class.