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Why are there no major variations between States in terms of respect for the rule of law, a set of rules and rights political stable and enforced impartially? How can they be imposed limits against abuses of power in democracy and what the beginning and consolidation of a functional democracy?
The theory proposed by Weingast suggests that the State may be restricted only if and when the members of a society resolve their dilemmas of coordination in this regard. Coordination requires a broad consensus shared on the limits of the State's matching, which include not just simple respect the election results but also the correct rules regarding competition policy as well as the entire rules limiting the interventions by public policy.
Consensus and the means of coordination can take the form of a Constitution or a pact has a set of rules whose observance to be in the interest of political actors because they are so valuable that citizens are ready to defend them, retragand support to those who would try to violate them. This consensus on the values of democracy and stability results in behaviors that form in a "civic culture" and make all groups to react when there is a child abuse even if only one of them, because in their turn to be devices in the future. In the absence of consensus is created a democratic alternation between periods and episodes of autoritarianism, well illustrated by the history of South America in sec. XX.
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Presents: Horia Tabia
