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Assessing Representative Democracy: the Need of New Mechanisms of Political Representation
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Abstract Western neo-liberal Democracies are often and shortly characterized by having a representative procedure of participation in the public sphere of life, determining a self-ruled form of political regime, affirming the sovereignty of the people in a specific territory; an economic welfare system; poli... mehr
Western neo-liberal Democracies are often and shortly characterized by having a representative procedure of participation in the public sphere of life, determining a self-ruled form of political regime, affirming the sovereignty of the people in a specific territory; an economic welfare system; political institutions that administrate and organize public life based on their citizen´s confidence; public security and order. Yet, the lack of political representation of local communities, or at least their sense of ineffectiveness of the representative system to respond to their needs, promotes their alienation fromnational political systems and weakens it. It is a vicious circle, i.e., the political system does not adequately represent the political communities, and these, if not represented, weakens the political system and its ability to respond to the needs of local communities. Our intent is to show that breaking this vicious circle means strengthening democracy with new mechanisms of political representation.... weniger
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Freie Schlagwörter
constituency; democracy; identity; political representation
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 5-19
Zeitschriftentitel
Perspective Politice, 15 (2022) 1-2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25019/perspol/22.15.1
ISSN
2065-8907
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz., Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0