Procedural Democracy and its Intercultural Approach: A Pending Subject in the Rule of Law

Abstract

The current work tries to make evident how the democracy of the multicultural states, like Ecuador, although it has made significant progress in terms of universal political participation within a democratic system, it has not even raised the possibility of making available to all ethnicities the mechanisms by which the popular will is expressed. The fact of having a single electoral state system built from a formalistic approach on a liberal democracy basis, as majority rule, can produce disadvantageous effects of participation in relation to social sectors whose traditions and forms of political participation are distinct but not less democratic as compared with the state electoral system. Consequently, the author raises this concern as a provocation to the social and academic debate on the subject.