Abstract

LESGART, Cecilia. Crisis of democracy: authoritarian climate and conceptual indeterminacy. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2023, n.49, pp.15-27. ISSN 1852-1568.

Abstract The «discomfort with democracy» -typical expression that expressed in the 80s of the twentieth century the dissatisfaction with its unfulfilled promises- to this day, the argument has become more complex. We live in an authoritarian age. The meanings with which this concept is nourished are varied, although a first meaning is that of the movement inverse to that of the democratic «third wave» announced by Huntington, which was followed by this «third wave of autocratization». In this text, reflections of a conceptual and historical order are offered, which are nourished by the political thought of our days as well as the contributions of the Argentine, Uruguayan and Spanish colleagues who write in this same issue of the journal Estudios

Keywords : crisis; democracy; right; authoritarianism.