Crisis, deliberación y apertura democrática: reflexiones introductorias al debate sobre Open Democracy de Helen Landemore

In the following brief work, we will be in charge of presenting certain considerations, intuitions and hypotheses made explicit by Helen Landemore in her valuable book Open Democracy (PUP, 2020), as well as those of notable researchers from Argentina who have been specially summoned to deliberate, discuss and dialogue with the author in general, and with said work in particular. On the one hand, the search for a normative model that surpasses contemporary democracy undertaken by the aforementioned author, calls us to rethink political notions such as legitimacy, representation, populism, deliberation and sovereignty, in order to find a conceptual, normative, institutional scheme that is open, wide or expanded. On the other hand, the readings carried out by colleagues from Argentina place their emphasis on a deliberative democratic conception, the deliberative role of constitutional courts, an axiological conception of political representativeness, an interpretivist perspective of political normativity, an argumentative conception of the political, as well as the benefits of implementing the political mechanisms of minipublics.