Estados pluripóvicos: premissas iniciais para uma nova forma de olhar a teoria de Estado

Abstract

The present study aims to explore the central concepts of State, Nation, and NationState, central to the Theory of State, from their formation, characteristics, and principals; analyze how they interact with each other, with government legitimization and with the exercise of political power in order to propose an organization for State structuring that is coherent with the multicultural reality of its population. The State, from a structural perspective, is a means of organization for political society, an administrative institution devoid of subjective value. When States self-proclaim as correspondent to a specific and single national identity it adopts within its operations subjective and psychological elements that lead to the invisibilization and exclusion of divergent cultures of the recognized as official, and to cultural homogenization. This study proposes that States must organize their administrative institutions in order to integrate in their operations the different cultures to allow their members unrestricted access to the State‟s political life and fundamental rights. It differs from plurinationalism by advocating that, in addition to ethnic assimilation, governmental structuring must also incorporate communities of all kinds, whether they are ethnic, cultural, religious, or immigrant. The hypothetical-deductive method was used, which concluded that this structural update is both possible and necessary. However, it is recognized that to proceed with a structural proposal for this organization, a comprehensive analysis of other aspects that make up the State, as well as a possible alignment with different legal systems, forms of State, government structures, and regimes, will be necessary.