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Všeobecné volební právo jako demokratický axiom: některé konsekvence pro teorii i praxi moderní masové demokracie

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Kunštát D.

Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

2009

vol. 1

issue 1

110-124

The study tackles some key aspects of voters’ decision making in modern mass democracies vis a vis the changes of paradigm of political party membership since the implementation of universal suffrage. The implementation of universal suffrage, the study argues, brought about also mass party membership, which presupposed tight integration of an individual into a distinct socio-cultural collective body. The parties thus begun to expand into the „civic“ sphere, which enabled the identification of a single voter with respective political representation, the Agrarian party of the First Czechoslovak Republic being a typical example for Kunštat. The end of the World War II, however, is accompanied by growing diversity of institutions and interests within the modern democracies. The parties oriented on voters from different social backgrounds, which pursued a large number of concrete goals, begun to assert themselves. The political conflicts and interests thus became gradually de-ideologized. Parallel to that, these types of political parties were unable to tackle the interests and problems of post-industrial society (gender question, nuclear energy, abortion etc.) According to Kunštat, today the modern media seem to play the key role of an almost single producer of public discourse and also of a very strong tool of social control. Voters’ decision making, the study concludes, is thus nowadays defined more by their political socialization or party identification than by rational choice.

Demagog i sofista nauczycielami wiedzy w demokracji masowej

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Goćkowski J.

Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe

2007

issue 2(30)

30-43

The Author characterises mass democracy as a world where people encounter great science, great pathologies in science and great confusion in languages. He discusses the status and function of demagogy and demagogues as well as sophistry and sophists in the world of “mass humans”, with the media acting as a vehicle for demagogues and sophists. He also presents conclusions concerning intellectual life in mass democracy and suggests steps that could be taken to defend authentic knowledge culture against the expansion of demagogy/demagogues and sophistry/sophists.

Autor charakteryzuje demokrację masową jako świat, w którym mamy do czynienia z wielką nauką, wielką patologią nauki i wielkim pomieszaniem języków; omawia kwestię statusu i funkcji demagogii i demagogów oraz sofistyki i sofistów w świecie człowieka masowego, a także sprawę ułatwienia działania demagogów i sofistów dzięki przekazowi medialnemu. Przedstawia również konkluzje dotyczące życia intelektualnego w demokracji masowej, wspomina także o tym, co należy czynić w celu obrony autentycznej kultury wiedzy przed ekspansją demagogii/demagogów i sofistyki/sofistów.

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1 Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe

1 Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

1 2009

1 2007

1 Goćkowski J.

1 Kunštát D.

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Všeobecné volební právo jako demokratický axiom: některé konsekvence pro teorii i praxi moderní masové demokracie

Demagog i sofista nauczycielami wiedzy w demokracji masowej