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Wspólnota demokratyczna jako synteza reprezentacji i partycypacji

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Klementewicz T.

Studia Politologiczne

2016

vol. 41

37-61

This article directs the reader’s attention towards potential weaknesses, limitations and problems stemming from the political system of representative democracy. In its present form it seems to have become a method of legitimizing the capitalist social order and has failed to carry out the task of balancing economic and social interests within the market economy, which, in turn, is based upon a class system. The further evolution of a democratic form of government should primarily depend on limiting the aspect of representation and increasing the role of other, more direct ways of political expression, such as referendums. Secondly, one can notice the development of new methods of direct political activity within local governing bodies in cities as well as rural areas. On this level, it is easy to notice the formation of new ecological and social movements of individuals – content a sort of game or even a battle between common interests and isolated, private ones is, without a doubt, an ongoing process. It can be observed within the spheres of economic order, group identity and concerns those willing to expand freedom of expression in public life, as well as the powers that wish to curb individual freedoms by the authority of the state. A democracy based on widespread participation demands not only the existence of an active community of citizens, but also an empowered one. Such elements of society are the fruit of political movements.

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Wspólnota demokratyczna jako synteza reprezentacji i partycypacji