Política, democracia y ciudadanía

Abstract

The politics, as exclusive / y human activíty, depends on a wide vari­ ety of interpretations, the two most important are related to role assigned to the política! process: The liberal and the Repub/ican. This prácess can be conceived as the formatíon of the política/ wilf of the citizens to adminístrate the State on beha!f the ínterest of the socíet y or as a constítuent factor of the process of socíalisation. In the same way democracy can be under­ stood as a politíca f regime or a type of culture linked to a way of life. In both cases, politics rests in an ethical lattice, it is linked to the existence of the public thing and it requires the pre se nce of citizens. This circu m­ stance is particular/ y important in so­ cieties pluricu ftura fs )n which national conscience moves in a peculiar way, between the enfarged inc/usion and the renovated exclusion.