Two Sides of the Same Coin: Political Equality and Electoral Rights, a Study of Formal Qualifications on the Right to Candidacy
En el imaginario popular sobre la democracia, el derecho a ser elegido y el derecho al voto suelen ser considerados como dos caras de la misma moneda. Sin embargo, el análisis legislativo realizado demuestra que el conjunto de sus derechohabientes no es simétrico en las prácticas existentes incluso...
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right to vote,
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Gómez Ruiz, María José2023-08-30T11:54:52Z2025-04-09T17:55:30Z2023-08-30T11:54:52Z2025-04-09T17:55:30Z2023-08-30En el imaginario popular sobre la democracia, el derecho a ser elegido y el derecho al voto suelen ser considerados como dos caras de la misma moneda. Sin embargo, el análisis legislativo realizado demuestra que el conjunto de sus derechohabientes no es simétrico en las prácticas existentes incluso en los países que, por lo demás, son paradigmáticamente democráticos. Este hecho es problemático debido a que la legitimidad democrática está predicada de manera especial sobre la igualdad formal de los ciudadanos. Por ello, la marcada asimetría entre los dos derechos electorales más fundamentales exige un cimiento normativo sólido. La elaboración de este, no obstante, es un trabajo que ha quedado descuidado por la academia. Tras bosquejar cómo podría verse el cimiento normativo más plausible para justificar la asimetría, se argumenta que, en igualdad de condiciones, los países actualmente no tienen manera de cumplir con él. La consecuencia normativa de ello es que las restricciones formales al derecho a ser elegido, mismas que de facto definen el conjunto de sus derechohabientes, deberían aminorarse y expandirse de modo que empaten aquellas que limitan el derecho al voto.In popular democratic conceptions, the right to candidacy and the right to vote are two sides of the same coin. Nonetheless, as the legislative analysis in this paper shows, their sets of right holders are not symmetrical in the extant practice of otherwise paradigmatically democratic countries. This fact is problematic as democratic legitimacy is, first and foremost, predicated upon the formal equality of citizens. As such, this stark asymmetry between the two most fundamental electoral rights demands a sound normative account, one which has been seriously neglected by electoral scholars. After outlining what the most plausible account would look like, the paper argues that, all other things being equal, countries currently have no way to comply with it. It normatively follows that the qualification bars for candidacy, which formally demarcate its set of rightsholders, should be lowered and expanded to match those currently in place for the right to vote.application/pdftext/htmltext/xml10.18601/01229893.n57.042346-20510122-9893https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/handle/001/25523https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n57.04spaDepartamento de Derecho Constitucionalhttps://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/derest/article/download/8956/15335https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/derest/article/download/8956/15336https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/derest/article/download/8956/15337Núm. 57 , Año 2023 : Septiembre-Diciembre1085785Revista Derecho del EstadoAristotle. Politics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998.Beckman, Ludvig. The Frontiers of Democracy. London : Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.Beitz, Charles. Political Equality: An Essay on Democratic Theory. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1989Brandt, Christopher, Linzer, Isabel, O’toole, Shannon, Puddington, Arch, Repucci, Sarah, Roylance, Tyler, Schenkkan, Nate, Shahbaz, Adrian, Slipowitz, Amy & Watson, Caitlin. Democracy in Retreat: Freedom in the World 2019 [online], 2019. Availabe at : https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Feb2019_FH_FITW_2019_Report_ForWebcompressed.pdfBrennan, Jason. Against Democracy. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016Episto Project. Why not epistocracy ? Political legitimacy and “ the fact of expertise ”. 2010Estlund, David. Democratic Authority: a Philosophical Framework. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.Johns, Alecia. Conceptualising Political Candidacy as a Human Right. [S. l.] : University of Oxford, 2014Johns, Alecia. The Case for Political Candidacy as a Fundamental Right. Human Rights Law Review. 2016, Vol. 16, no 1, p. 29‑54Kleinig, Joseph et Murtagh, Kevin. Disenfranchising Felons. The Journal of Applied Philosophy. 2005, Vol. 22, no 3, p. 217‑239López-Guerra, Claudio. Democracy and Disenfranchisement: The Morality of Electoral Exclusions. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.Martí, José Luis. The Epistemic Conception of Deliberative Democracy Defended. In: Besson, Samantha et Marti, José Luis (eds.), Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2006, p. 27‑56Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. Auckland: The Floating Press, 1861/2009.OAS. American Convention on Human Rights [en ligne]. 1969.Organization of African Unity. African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 1981Petit, Philip. Representation , Responsive and Indicative. Constellations. 2010, Vol. 17, nº 3Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1971.Rehfeld, Andrew. On Quotas and Qualification for Office. In I. Shapiro, S. Stokes, E. Wood, & A. Kirshner (Eds.), Political Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; and.Saward, Michael. Shape-Shifting Representation [on line]. 2014, Vol. 108, nº 4, p. 723‑736.Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York : Harper and Row, 1956Seery, John. Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the US Constitution. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York : Random House, 1999United Nations. Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation. 2005United Nations. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). January 1969United Nations General Assembly. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1966United Nations General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.United Nations Human Rights Commitee. General Comment No. 25 to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1996Williams, Melissa. Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1998Castaneda Gutman vs. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2008Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. 2016.Constitution of the United States. 1778Five Australian politicians ousted over dual citizenship. BBC News [en ligne]. 18th May 2018. Available at: www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-44049929Yatama vs Nicaragua. Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2005María José Gómez Ruiz - 2023info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Esta obra está bajo una licencia internacional Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/derest/article/view/8956Electoral rights,right to candidacy,right to vote,political equality,democratic theory,representative democracyDerechos electorales,derecho a ser elegido,derecho al voto,igualdad política,teoría democrática,democracia representativaTwo Sides of the Same Coin: Political Equality and Electoral Rights, a Study of Formal Qualifications on the Right to CandidacyTwo Sides of the Same Coin: Political Equality and Electoral Rights, a Study of Formal Qualifications on the Right to CandidacyArtículo de revistahttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Textinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleJournal articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionPublicationOREORE.xmltext/xml2648https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/bitstreams/2c32c86b-9607-4162-b516-d463e8f62b8e/download9349df7440d44230e566338f51fd54b6MD51001/25523oai:bdigital.uexternado.edu.co:001/255232025-04-09 12:55:30.796http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0María José Gómez Ruiz - 2023https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.coUniversidad Externado de Colombiametabiblioteca@metabiblioteca.org |