Approach to the Link between the Creative Economy and the Crisis of Representative Democracy

Abstract

Based on Joas' creative action theory, which presents a novel character and rescues the notion of creativity as an essential theme of sociological theory, this article aims to analyze whether the global economic system has commercialized and de-tradized the creativity, emptying it of meaning and collaborating, in this way, in the deepening of the crisis of representative democracies and their values. To do so previously, they will be defined and interrelate the concepts of "crisis", "representative democracy" and "creativity". It will be seen that the creative economy has created new inequalities between rich and poor and between creative and non-creative states, widening the gap between market and state, between politics and economy, between capitalism and representative democracy. And it has even activated the contradictions of capitalism, that is, it has deepened the crisis, the decay and the collapse of democracy. In this sense, creativity can not today be seen only as a lifeline for the many difficulties and uncertainties that plague representative democracies. It is also, and should not forget, a source of intensification of these same problems, while generating new ones, not foreseen.