DELIBERATIVE FEDERALISM: AN OBJECTED MODEL DURING THE PAMPEAN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION

Abstract

Towards 1983 after the emergency in Argentina of a new democratic government, new semantic uses of fundamental political terms such as human rights and democracy were put into tension, which began to be discussed during the democratic transition (1979-1983) through the debate among those who supported a monist political discourse and those who defended a pluralistic political discourse. From the novel Alfonsinist government it was explicitly promoted a federal deliberative discourse, which was paradigmatically made explicit in the reports issued by the Council for the Consolidation of Democracy (CCD) and was presented as a source of a new political grammar. However, the lack of concreteness of these institutional reforms and the adoption of an improper pluralist federalism after the 1994 reform have generated a notable neglect or lack of consideration of these as a topic of investigation of recent Argentinian political history. In this work we will attend to three specific objectives: 1) to reconstruct the context of enunciation and justification of federal deliberative democratic discourse; 2) to identify the institutional designs proposed in the reports issued by the CCD; and 3) to investigate the aporias and practical inconveniences of that deliberative federal discourse.