Nueva institucionalidad y participación ciudadana. Un aporte a la democracia en América del Sur

Abstract

The new constitutional processes in South America, have generated significant changes and perhaps paradigmatic in countries that have been given. These changes have been instituted due to the deep demands that civil society established Constituent Assembly resulting Constitutions like ecuadorian consitution, venezuelan constitution and bolivian constitution. In the Constituent Assembly a model of participatory democracy, to guarantee the effective participation of citizens in decision-making authorities, is structured so that to strengthen this new institutional model was created. In the case of ecuadorian, the Consejo de Participacion Ciudadana y Control Social would become a guarantee of the rights of participation and turn in the body that appoints the highest authorities of the state through new forms of selection is created. Our main objective is perform a descriptive and critical analysis of this new institutions of participation, to confront with cross-liberal institutions and achieving verify if within the new ways of appointing authorities could be contributions to democracy in Latin America.