¿El estado constitucional en jaque? tomo I.

With an eye on the transformations and challenges of the constitutional State today, with a globalized world that tends to polarize and radicalize ideas, a group of researchers from the Externado University of Colombia has met to respond, from different disciplines. and areas the same question: Is the constitutional State currently in check? This is how the collective work The constitutional state in check? brings together the research of more than thirty Colombian academics who aim to contribute to the (re) consolidation of the contemporary constitutional State in its democratic component, its relationship with international law, in the challenge imposed by overcoming the conflict (the transition) and, finally , in the critical approach to the constitutional phenomenon.

This first volume, "The democratic component of the constitutional State", addresses the challenge par excellence of constitutional States: democracy. In this sense, the reader will find here, throughout the pages of this volume, research and critical analysis on issues related to the phenomenon of populism, the crisis of the representative model, parliamentary management and control, and citizen participation in development of social control and the implementation of popular consultations.