A democracia liberal em crise : as dinâmicas contemporâneas neoliberais e os abalos das estruturas democráticas.

Abstract

The theme presentes in this study seeks to understand the fenomenals that turn the contemporayy liberal democracy into a fragile model, in special because of the new dynamics brought by the liberal scenario and the hypormodern mentality. In the first chapter, it is demonstrated that liberal democrcy is a entwined phenomenon combined with the contemporar constitucionalism and carries with it a great historical context of the development of fundamental rights and the notions of classical liberal ideas, together with the republican readings and the protection of diffuse rights placed in the second post-war period. However, as established in chapter 2, modernity, marked by the rise of the neoliberalism, inaugurates a new level in the sphere of the subject's mentality, deepening hyperindividuality and operating daily life through the spectacle of images and exacerbated consumerism. Thus, the problem of the study is clear: how does the hypermodern moment, marked by the neoliberal mentality, affect the functioning of liberal democracy formulated in the second post-war period? Through the hypothetical-deductive method, raising empirical data and through the theoretical proposal that the democratic functioning is weakened, in chapter 3 there were clear problems raised for the contemporary liberal democracy. Candidacies with anti democratic discourses, an abandonment of the public arena by the subjects and a marked electoral behavior that operates only through the discourse and market language of spectacle and consumemerism demonstrate a deep dynamic and distance from democracy placed in hypermodern molds in comparison with the phenomenon of classical liberal democracy.