Abstract
Universal democracy has become the element of cohesion in the construction of a new paradigm of human society and the social sciences. It involves a project which reassumes the problem of the `general interest' and the `common good' as the most important objectives in a multinational, multicultural and multiethnic world. The creation of the new paradigm subsumes the legacies of social practices and previous political and ideological policies. It seeks the determining factor that has prevented the realization of the historical social struggles for liberty and justice. This factor seems to correspond to various forms of exclusion from power of the majority of the populations in previous democratic experiences. It requires an investigation of models of universal participation in accordance with present-day political and technological development.
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