A crise global das democracias liberais: uma análise comparativa entre perspectivas liberais e críticas

Abstract

This essay aims to understand and compare the liberal and critical views on the crisis of liberal democracies. It is intended, through bibliographical review and classical hermeneutics, to highlight the main arguments and conclusions of the authors about the crisis and to compare them. The hypothesis is that liberal authors infer that the ineffectiveness of liberal democracy institutions led to its crisis, while critical authors argue that neoliberalism, its forms of legitimation and the new world-reason born of it, explains the current crisis of liberal democracies. Thus, this essay seeks to prove that these are the causes of the crisis according to these theories and that they complement each other, as they explain the ongoing economic-political-institutional crisis. It is concluded that the crisis of liberal democracies can be understood, in a more comprehensive way, using critical and liberal perspectives together, being, therefore, complementary.