ELECTORAL SYSTEM

Advising an electoral system to a newly democratized country

Advising an electoral system to a newly democratized country

Introduction

Democracy means government by the people: the people who ultimately has the word. The clear model of a real government of the people, therefore a truly democratic government, is the democracy of the ancient Greeks, because citizens were directly involved in politics when the assembly of all citizens gathered in the public square effectively decided policy of each city. It is true that a critical eye shadows also discovered in this model so bright, for example, citizens were a minority of those living in the city. But these shadows will not cloud the role model to which we look when we talk about democracy.

The essential thing for a person lawfully represents another adult is that the confidence shown freely given to your representative. Confidence is the key concept of all true representation. If I trust a bank to manage my savings, this implies that such bank deserves my trust. But this is not the concept of trust applies to political representation, because the bank, even if my confidence is not my representative, but the manager of a very specific piece of my interests. In the political world, by the very political nature of decisions to make, that is, because it is the general issues of concern to the nation, the representative is much more than a manager, since it has a specific mandate for an issue concrete. Hence the constitutional prohibition of binding mandate to become representatives in delegates, deputies prosecutors. The political representative must deal with unforeseen issues with new circumstances, and can not play its role if the representation limit its scope. The link that binds the proxy and shareholder policy is general confidence.

Discussion

We presume that the trust is the key concept of representation and, therefore, take seriously the trust is the core of the new system we propose. We can say that the less direct is the relationship between representative and represented, the more the principle of trust vanishes, we can say that the principle of confidence is inversely related to the institutional distance between representative and represented (Carey & Hix, 2011). Therefore, the more complicated and influenced the choice of representative is more institutional distance between representative and represented less confident and links the two terms of this relationship.

For the relationship of trust between represented and representative exist without fictions, with authenticity, it takes at least two requirements. First, that every citizen can nominate candidates from the person who puts his trust, that is, not imposed by a representative that he has chosen. Second, that trust is not an act timely time to time, but should be kept alive, can grow or diminish, or even to die over the legislature, which implies first that citizens can continue to manage their representative, to know what does and does not do on behalf of those who have chosen to communicate with him and expose their desires and their fears ...