Crisis of representative democracy

participatory alternatives or direct democracy with electronic media

Abstract

The article presents the current crisis of representative democracy criticizing the thesis by which a country that reached democracy and maintained minimum rates of economic and social solidity had it insured. It explains first the crisis of democracy tout court and then analyzes the alternatives offered to representative democracy. It directly focuses on direct democracy to show important elements of it, above all with electronic means, to show later that elements of participatory democracy will be reinforced in the interim.