Liberal democracy

Liberal democracy combines majority rule with respect for individual rights. Its core: representative institutions, separation of powers, rule of law, and civil liberties exercised within a constitutional framework. Revista Conciencia Democrática publishes analysis and essays on the challenges, threats, and defenses of liberal democracy in the 21st century.

Articles on liberal democracy (4)

• Toward an Architecture of Democracy
  From the machine for living to the machine for living together. As politics loses itself in immediacy, the true democratic pact breathes in the streets: a journey through the tensions between rigidity and spontaneity, and how public space defines our coexistence.
• Cameroon Learning from Senegalese Democracy
  From a Cameroonian vantage point, Senegal's recent alternations of power expose the fatigue of a democracy captured by a single man for more than forty years.
• Populism and Trump as an Expression of an Unequal Society
  A political religion that challenges American democracy and, at the same time, expresses a social demand.
• The functional death of the liberal subject: Fragmented language, democracy without intelligibility
  The functional death of the liberal subject: Fragmented language, democracy without intelligibility

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