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CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY THE BOUCHARD-TAYLOR COMMISSION
José María Sauca Cano/María Isabel Wences Simon
ABSTRACT. In February 2007, Québec Premier set up a Commission which was given the task of asking citizens about reasonable accommodation practices related to cultural differences. These practices have deeply marked the political and social life of Quebecers the last few years. This article analyzes the Bouchard-Taylor Commission's work, especially the wide public consultation which was developed in a public debate, giving rise to an intensive participative and deliberative practice without precedent in that nation's history.
KEY WORDS: Participative democracy, public consultation, reasonable accommodations, intercultural harmonization, Québec.
THE REASONS FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES
Julieta Marcone
ABSTRACT. The aim of this paper is to show that, faced with a widening lack of trust in political parties, in popular leaders and in public servants, civil disobedience becomes a crucial arm in the symbolic arsenal that of democratic states of law. Public disobedience triggers two legitimating principles in a democratic order: the people's sovereignty and recognition among all of the right to have rights. It helps, for this very reason, to keep safe and expand rights, on the one hand, and to broaden the democratic horizon, on the other.
KEY WORDS: Civil disobedience, democracy, civil rights, Habermas, Dworkin.
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CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AS A SOCIETY-STATE RELATION DELIMITED BY THE CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Mario Espinosa
ABSTRACT. This text states that citizen's participation constitutes a society- state kind of relation which, before making reference to a bunch of institutional structures or to the logics of social organization, can be conceived as an interaction space, as well as for communication and differentiation between the state system and the social system. The text also sets out that the relation between the state and the society is a characteristic relation in contemporary societies; it is delimited (in its senses and orientations) by the regulation notions derived from the meaning of democracy and the concept of citizenship itself. The relation performs the function of regulating permanently the conflict assumed in the definition of public affairs and the political and social agendas.
KEY WORDS: Citizen's participation, civil society, state, democracy, citizenship.
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