STREET DEMOCRACY

Abstract

In this text, one of the most extended (at least in Spain and Europe) version of democracy is examined. This is the street democracy. At first sight this is understood as a sociopolitical behavior (and also cultural) of a direct, pacific or violent, acceptance of the power by the people (from here the «democracy»), done or attempted at public spaces (from here the «street») through crowded demonstrations, apparently without a visible organization, either without leaders, nor formal structures. This notion is opposed to the representative democracy. This is why there is a reference to the last one and its shortages, what explains the appearance of the former one as a counterpoint