Popular participation in populist regimes

Authors

  • Rodrigo Élcio Marcelos Mascarenhas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2525-8036.2022.40415

Keywords:

Populism, Popular participation, Democracy

Abstract

This article analyzes the advance of populism in Western democracies from the perspective of Rosanvallon, Urbinati and Przeworski.. The objective of this study is still to understand how popular participation instruments work in a context of populism and to insert the management of the President of the Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in this scenario. Through the bibliographic review of the cited authors, it was possible to perceive that populism, especially that which identifies itself with the right-wing political bias, intensely explores the supposed popular participation in public management, notably via mechanisms made possible by the internet, such as Instagram, Whatsapp, Telegram and Twitter. Inflamed by citizens' discontent with representative institutions, especially political parties, this phenomenon would use instruments of direct democracy to build legitimacy, while exploring non-institutionalized forms of participation, such as the internet, to seek citizen adhesion. around the figure of a leader. The problem analyzed is whether this innovation in the relationship between rulers and ruled is beneficial or harmful to the democratic renewal that some theorists seek to defend. Scientists explored in this article indicate that popular participation, via non-formal instruments, can deepen a crisis of representation that has been identified in modern democracies for some years. Representative democracy, in the view of these scholars, has little chance of survival in a scenario in which the role of parties is increasingly relegated to the background.

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Author Biography

Rodrigo Élcio Marcelos Mascarenhas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutorando em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Mestre em Administração Pública pela Fundação João Pinheiro (2019). Bacharel em Direito e em Comunicação Social – Jornalismo. Advogado e Analista legislativo – Jornalista (Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais.). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9981-894X. Contato: rodmarcelos@gmail.com.

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Published

2022-12-20

How to Cite

MASCARENHAS, R. Élcio M. Popular participation in populist regimes. Revista de Ciências do Estado, Belo Horizonte, v. 7, n. 2, p. 1–21, 2022. DOI: 10.35699/2525-8036.2022.40415. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e40415. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.