Norberto Bobbio has two fundamental insertions in democratic theory. One, as a thinker of participative democracy, in his actionist period - when he was a member of the Party of Action, in the forties of the last century; the other, as a thinker of democratic proceduralism, since the middle of the fifties. Each of those particular forms of democratic regime conceptions inserts itself in different traditions. This article intents to situate those traditions and the particular way that Bobbio’s conceptions cross with them.
Norberto Bobbio; Democratic traditions; Ethical democracy; Procedural democracy