Is There Citizenship Without Freedom? The Exercise of Formal Citizenship Participation of Persons Deprived of Liberty in Costa Rica
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2020 |
| Descripción: | This article aims to understand how citizen participation is practiced from the point of view of deprivation of liberty and what are the formal mechanisms identified by the legal system, as well as their limitations and scope. The proposal is to reconstruct the main elements that show the evolution of access to formal citizen participation of persons deprived of liberty in Costa Rica. The methodology implemented was the analysis of data from the presidential elections. These considered data were from 1998 (when the population was allowed to vote) until 2018. Besides, data from other types of activities, such as the 2007 referendum and the use of legal tools, such as the electoral appeals filed to guarantee political rights in prisons, were examined. On the other hand, the discussion revolves around the exercise of citizen participation as one of the most studied subjects in the Social Sciences, which, however, has been little explored in the context of populations in high conditions of vulnerability, such as persons deprived of liberty. Therefore, the findings show low levels of participation and presuppose the existence of important limitations, not in access as such, but in the elements that allow the exercise of rights. It is concluded that the guarantees available to the prison population in this area constitute a challenge for the authorities in terms of the exercise of citizenship and national and international normative support. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/12354 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/nuevohumanismo/article/view/12354 |
| Palabra clave: | citizen participation; prison; vote; democracy; political rights; deprived of liberty. participación ciudadana; prisión; voto; democracia; derechos políticos; privados de libertad. |