Article raises questions about the criteria of democracy, dispelling commonplace, colloquial, but the media supporting, illusions related to the assessment of what democracy is, what democratic is and what a democracy is not, and as democracy must not be considered. Here are stripped simplistic, dichotomous divisions: the democratic-undemocratic. Democracy, democratic criteria are syndromatic. Similarly incorrect assertions are identifying, by way of implication, democracy with a democratic influence, pressure. Democratic system, its standards, procedures, institutions are often only a curtain ... for undemocratic, or even anti-democratic forms pressure of political actors. Here, under the banner of ‘democracy’, ‘will of the people’, ‘public interest’, etc., democracy can be ... disassembled.
Demokracja, demokratyczny, demokratyzm, demokratyzacja to pojęcia syndromatyczne. Zarówno same w sobie, gdy wskazujemy kryteria definicyjne, jak i w związkach pojęć – takich jak np. demokracja liberalna czy demokratyczne państwo prawa. Syndromatyczność tych pojęć polega na tym, że ich treść nie jest jednowymiarowa (w redukcji do sposobu wyłaniania i legitymizacji władzy, sposobu rządzenia, relacji między rządzącymi a rządzonymi), lecz określona jest przez splot charakterystyk ideologicznych, etycznych, socjoekonomicznych i prawnych. Demokracja „przymiotnikowa” to inna jakość niż „czysta” demokracja rozumiana dosłownie, lecz i blankietowo. Znajduje to wyraz w zróżnicowanych doktrynalnie modelach demokracji.
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Democracy, democratic, democratism, democratization are syndromic terms. Both in themselves, as Simple terms, when we indicate the definition criteria, and in complex terms – such as, for example, liberal democracy or the democratic state of law. The syndromic nature of these concepts lies in the fact that their content is not one-dimensional (reduced to the method of the emergence and legitimation of power, the method of governing, the relationship between the ruling and the ruled), but is determined by a combination of ideological, ethical, socioeconomic and legal characteristics. “Adjectival” democracy is a different quality than “pure” democracy understood literally, but also in blank form. This is reflected in the doctrinally diverse models of democracy.
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