Contribuições à compreensão Bobbiana da democracia e do Estado de Direito a partir do debate com a esquerda europeia

Abstract

Norberto Bobbio‟s contributions to the debate with the European left in the second half of the last century are the subject of this essay. This debate is part of the politi-cal landscape of the Eurocommunism consolidation, in other words, a movement of change from various theoretical and strategic communist parties of democratic capitalist countries of Europe toward the acceptance of representative democracy. Specifically the contribution of Norberto Bobbio aimed to reconcile socialism with a relevant aspect of political liberal-ism, namely democracy and turned to themes such a formal and substantive democracy, direct democracy and representative, encouraging leadership, majority and proportional system and prohibition of bound mandate.