ATTITUDES TOWARD DEMOCRACY - FROM THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL MODEL TO THE NEW PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACIES

The present study is based on a research carried out with a sample of more than eight hundred university students. The goal was to determine which are the most predominant attitudes toward democracy among young university students. We focused the task from a psychosocial perspect ive, as a starting point from which we shall develop two main axes to guide our analysis: formal and real representation of political actors within the system and the existence of conditions far an open public debate concerning the public issues. We shall analyze the new emerging forms of democracy as critical and superseding of the current models.