THE AUTONOMOUS RIGHT OF CIVIL PARTICIPATION: A CONSTITUTIONAL APPROACH AND HIS LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

In recent years we have witnessed an effort to revitalize the citizens’ participation in the making of decisions in Spain’s autonomies in order to build up a direct and interactive democracy that should make an efficient complement to the representative democracy. The reactivation of the constitutional law to take part in the public matters constitutes a priori the precise response to the expectations and civil demands in the current context of social indifference. The present text analyzes the right of civil participation from the vision of the constitutional jurisprudence, as well as the most important legislative innovations.

Keywords: Citizen participation. Constitutional jurisprudence. Autonomic community.