Instituições formais, cidadania e solidariedade complexa

Abstract

This article aims at some problems of the traditional poliarchic republicanism in Brazil, searching solutions for its difficulties on the issues of representation and participation. Not meant as a normative proposal, the article just enquiries alternatives which, at this moment, can not be more than probings. The core of these enquiries points out to the formation of a "complex solidarity" in contemporary Brazil. © 2006 CEDEC.