Abstract
Autore:
Roberta Adelaide Modugno
Titolo:
"Libertà versus democrazia in Friedrich von Hayek, Bruno Leoni e Hans Hermann Hoppe"
During the second half of
the XXth century the superiority of the democratic
model was given for granted and it
seemed that in the field of political institutions
nothing new remained to be discovered
and that liberal democracy was the final
step of a long historical constitutional process.
But in the western world democracy
is living a crisis in representation and confidence.
Friedrich von Hayek, Bruno Leoni
and Hans Hermann Hoppe criticized the inconsistencies
of democracy. Their criticism
is very interesting because these authors can
be considered representative of the difficult
relationships between democracy and classical
liberalism, between public choices and
individual liberty, and between liberty and
equality. Hayek approaches the topic of the
representative democracy from a perspective
of classical liberalism. Leoni’s criticism
represents the transition from classical liberalism
to libertarianism. He blamed democracy
for having paved the way to a more
and more invasive and oppressive statism.
Hoppe is the author who arrives to the most
radical and extreme conclusions about democracy,
which is considered a “god that
failed”.
