Transición, consolidación e hybris. Lecciones del colapso de la democracia venezolana
Por Héctor Briceño . The person who first noticed the distinctive character of democratic hubris— how it is consistent with the dynamism of democratic societies, how democratic adaptability goes along with democratic drift— was Tocqueville (…) Ever since Tocqueville wrote nearly two hundred years ago, people have been arguing about whether he was really an optimist or a pessimist about democracy. The truth is that he was both, and therefore neither. The grounds for demo- cratic optimism were the source of Tocqueville’s fundamen- tal worries about democracy (…) He did not share either the concerns of the traditional critics of democracy or the hopes of its modern champions. David Runciman The Confident Trap Inicialmente hay que compreder qué es lo que hemos ganado. Giovanni Sartori La democracia después del Comunismo (U)n optimismo tenaz y casi inconsciente parece haber prevalecido sobre el sentimiento generalizado de la existencia de una grave crisis...
