Pluralism and Democracy: The Latin American Neo/new Constitutionalism
by Lucia Picarella
pp. 156-173 Issue 10 (5,2) – July-December 2018 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 10.17450/180209
Abstract
This article evaluates the existing interrelations between democracy, pluralism and protection of rights, declining them in the Latin American context, with the objective of highlighting the conversion of the peculiarities of a plural democracy in the pillars of the neo / new constitutionalism charters. For this purpose, through a qualitative methodology, the different conceptions of pluralism will be differentiated, a necessary exercise both for the consideration of the guiding principles of a model of an ‘open’ constitutional state and the consecration of these by the Latin American texts, as to also point out the deviations registered in the political praxis in consideration of the sculpted forecasts to ensure theoretical support for this opening.