Heroes or Robots? Challenges to Citizenship in the Information Society. Elements for an Historical-Constitutional Prospective Theorization

Authors

  • Paulo Ferreira da Cunha Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i18.506

Keywords:

Constitutional history, Chief, Constitutional State, Leadership, Pluralism, Information Society

Abstract

It seems to be in our times some legal and political schizophrenia. On
the one hand is proclaimed the constitutional state, the rule of law, democratic,
social, cultural state, etc., on the other it is said that we are in an information
society, as synonymous of the contemporary, and some authoritative voices
identify that paradigm with less democracy and somehow exile or subordination
of the Constitution, which seems even superfluous before the magnificent
technical power. Under these contradictory circumstances, is pluralism still is
possible, and what kind of leaders will be engendered?

Enviado (submission date): 01/11/ 2016
Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 03/01/2017

Author Biography

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto

Catedrático de Direito (Faculdade de Direito da Univ. do Porto). Doutor (Univs. de Paris II e Coimbra). Agregado (Univ. do Minho). Pós-Doutor (Univ. de São Paulo, USP). Do Comité ad hoc para a Corte Constitucional Internacional. Professor das FMU (Laureate Int. Univs.), Bols. da Funadesp na Fadisp.

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Published

2017-08-19

Issue

No. 18 (2017): Historia Constitucional N. 18 (2017)

Section

Teoría de la Historia Constitucional

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