Paradoxes of democracy

Introduction: The problem; Constitutional and participatory conceptions of democracy; The historical roots of constitutional democratic regimes; The cultural and political programs of modernity: Basic premises; The cultural program of modernity: Antinomies, tensions, contradictions, and criticisms; The political program of modernityTensions between pluralistic and jacobin tendencies; The political process in modern societies: Protest movements and the redefinition of the political; Social movements in modern constitutional regimes; The challenge of incorporating protest; Tendencies of deconsolidation of democracy in contemporary societies.