The new governance for new democracies or democratic governance

integral regional development and the fourth helix as key elements

Abstract

This work contains the proposal of a new governance, or a new way of governing, a Democratic Governance, which also involves a new concept of regional development, Integral Regional Development (IRD), which consists of bringing together those who are different rather than the same, and the Diagnosis and Promotion of the Potentials and Capacities of Municipalities, Citizens and their Communities (DPC), where the academic sector plays a predominant role as the fourth helix, as well as complementation or complementarity, as key elements. The idea is to agree that, indeed, modern democracies require the participation of society in co-government in all areas, but this does not mean supplanting it, but rather complementing it. At a time when it is being discussed whether it is better to return to the local or continue in the global, or glocal, as has been proposed; of globalisms and new nationalisms; a new idea and vision is introduced, the loglal, or the inverse, thinking local and acting global, which is not a simple play on words, but literally reversing the equation and the strategy, a new way of doing things, at the same time that complementarity also alternates, by the way, with competition and cooperation or coopetition, which has also been proposed. An analysis of the terms in question is carried out to see if it is possible to link, operate and take advantage of them. In the end, it can be seen that that is not only possible, but necessary, if we want to move towards a true developmental democracy.