If Norberto Bobbio was able to claim, «if you ask me if democracy has a future and what it is, assuming that it has one, I answer calmly that I do not know», and if John Dunn was able to admit that, «democracy is the name for what we cannot have – yet cannot cease to want», one understands how the democratic problem which can also be summarised – among other ways – with the lapidary expression of Sartori but, before him, also by Sturzo: “government of opinions”, assumes a multidimensional character and, for this reason, cannot be reduced to a merely technical question, however sophisticated, made up exclusively of rules and “procedural universals”, a problem which can be resolved by recourse to some elegant algorithm.
Democrazia come processo inclusivo
Flavio Felice
2020-01-01
Abstract
If Norberto Bobbio was able to claim, «if you ask me if democracy has a future and what it is, assuming that it has one, I answer calmly that I do not know», and if John Dunn was able to admit that, «democracy is the name for what we cannot have – yet cannot cease to want», one understands how the democratic problem which can also be summarised – among other ways – with the lapidary expression of Sartori but, before him, also by Sturzo: “government of opinions”, assumes a multidimensional character and, for this reason, cannot be reduced to a merely technical question, however sophisticated, made up exclusively of rules and “procedural universals”, a problem which can be resolved by recourse to some elegant algorithm.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
