Democracy in the west: origin and evolution

Abstract

Democracy as theory as social and political practices born in the West over 2,500 years ago. Your future and historical development has been full of ups and downs, appearances and disappearances, to quote Charles Tilly, moments, periods or processes of democratization and de-democratization. This paper aims to describe and analyze the vicissitudes of the evolution of ancient to modern democracy. We try to show briefly how it was building democracy in the West, how were arising a number of institutions, habits and views on democracy, until our days. We believe that the analysis of the formation and development of democracy in the West is a fundamental point of reference when trying to study our democracies. This paper will attempt to develop a document that is useful to us to compare not only our similarities with Western liberal democracy but also our natural and inevitable differences with her.