Abstract

O’DONNELL, Guillermo. The Perpetual Crises of Democracy. Polis [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.1, pp.11-20. ISSN 2594-0686.

This is a translation into Spanish language of the Life Achievement IPSA Prize speech of acceptance that the well known political scientist and sociologist Guillermo O’Donnell delivered at Fukuoka, Japan, on July 2006. In this presentation, the author makes a visitation to the main elements which still configure the theory of democracy nowadays. Even if there are substantial steps backward in our contemporary world arguing against it, O’Donnell claims to preserve an optimist vision in order to invigorate democracy despite its regular crisis across nations.

Keywords : democracy; comparative policies; political crisis; government.