Between economy, politics and identity: social protest in the mirror of Israel s Democracy Crisis

Este artículo analiza los orígenes y el desarrollo de la protesta social en Israel, en el verano del 2011, que puede ser vista como parte de la ola mundial de protestas relacionadas con la crisis económica mundial. La hipótesis de esta investigación es quThis article analyzes the origins and development of the social protest that took place in Israel in the summer of 2011. It can be seen as a part of the world wave of protest resulting from the world economic crisis. The hypothesis of this research is th

Entre economía, política e identidad: la protesta social en el espejo de la crisis de la democracia israelí

Este artículo analiza los orígenes y el desarrollo de la protesta social en Israel, en el verano del 2011, que puede ser vista como parte de la ola mundial de protestas relacionadas con la crisis económica mundial. La hipótesis de esta investigación es que las presiones históricas generadas por una democracia y un sistema de partidos que se tornan menos representativos de lo necesario crean un desequilibrio o déficit democrático, en el marco del cual se manifiestan nuevos tipos de acción colectiva. Esto da lugar a las modernas redes de acción informales y a las nuevas identidades colectivas que se han formado en el seno de esta sociedad y que buscan representación democrática

Entre economía, política e identidad: la protesta social en el espejo de la crisis de la democracia israelí

This article analyzes the origins and development of the social protest that took place in Israel in the summer of 2011. It can be seen as a part of the world wave of protest resulting from the world economic crisis. The hypothesis of this research is that the historic pressures generated by a democracy and a party system that have become less representative than needed created a lack of equilibrium or democratic deficit in the framework of which new types of collective action develop. This opens space for new networks of informal action and the new collective identities that have come about in the bosom of this society and seek democratic representationacción colectiva � redes � identidad � capital � poder político � protes

Challenges of Inequality to Democracy

Democracy, as we understand it, is a process of collective decision-making among persons, which issues in collectively binding norms for the society of those persons. It is a process of decision-making in which persons participate as equals in determining the legal and conventional norms that bind them and in which the group of persons, taken collectively, are sovereign. Democracy can be understood as a descriptive term, referring to political societies that actually exist, or as a normative ideal for the evaluation of political societies. Our focus in this chapter is primarily on the basic moral principles that can justify this egalitarian process of collective decision-making and on the challenges to understanding and realizing this ideal in the modern world. After an initial account of the basic principle and the social and institutional realization of this principle, we address the challenges to articulating and implementing this principle that arise due to the reality of economic inequality and the religious, ethnic, gender, and racial pluralism of modern societies, and to the fact that state-based democratic systems operate within a larger global society. We then discuss and evaluate the appropriateness of democratic institutions, procedures, and organizations to translate the moral principles into the structural grammar of present-day democracies and to what extent they can guarantee the fundamental principles and normative promises of democracy. As we will see, the ideas of equality and sovereignty at the base of democracy cannot be fully appreciated without a grasp of the pluralism, complexity, and global interconnectedness of modern societies