Journal title AGRICOLTURA ISTITUZIONI MERCATI
Author/s Luigi Costato
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2016/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 135-154 File size 313 KB
DOI 10.3280/AIM2016-001007
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The essay deals with the issue of the crisis of the contemporary democratic state in the face of the challenges posed by the 21st century and, more specifically, by the phenomenon of globalization. The Author starts from the major Greek philosophers’ thought on the validity and limits of the different forms of government. He then retraces the fundamental stages of the origin and development of aristocratic parliamentarianism and the later democratic parliamentarianism in order to reflect on the current situation, on the rebirth of nationalism and populism at European level and on specific events such as Brexit and the most recent American presidential elections. The inability of contemporary states to control the effects of globalization and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a "new aristocracy" - a few large trans-national corporations - is underlined. The Author concludes by highlighting the need for "new global rules" that put limits on the excessive power of these actors and reaffirm the sovereignty, albeit partly shared, of the States.
Keywords: Parliamentarianism, Democracy, Demagogy
Luigi Costato, Parlamentarismo, democrazia e demagogia: cenni su un’involuzione in "AGRICOLTURA ISTITUZIONI MERCATI " 1/2016, pp 135-154, DOI: 10.3280/AIM2016-001007