LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

Liberal Democracy

Liberal Democracy

Introduction

Democracy is a form of collective decision making that presupposes some form of equality among the participants. The term used empirically and normatively, often simultaneously. It often used to describe or distinguish one political regime from another. A democratic system, for example, is one in which there are procedures and institutions for capturing the views of citizens and translating them into binding decisions. At the same time, however, these empirical descriptions often contain within them normative claims about the way institutions ought to be structured or behave (Scheuerman 2004, p. 185). Thus, it can be said that one society (whether now or in the past) is more (or less) democratic than another. The ideal of equality is particularly important to the normative evaluation of democracy. A democratic political system, in this view, is one that manifests in its institutions and procedures a conception of its members as free and equal and thus owed equal respect.

The Concept Of Liberal Democracy

Essential features of a liberal democracy are already in discussing the second democratic transformation has been named. Want in this section we systematize this again, and in some respects nuance. The Liberal democracy tries to popular sovereignty in a certain way to implement structural also to guarantee human rights. At the structural implementation can distinguish two levels. Basic is in addition to the constitutional democracy, and the democratic rights State of the modern political rule defined by law or organized also be justified(Scheuerman 2004, p. 185). The key structural feature of the political process is the Establishment of competitive and periodic elections, by the representatives the demos from the Demos legated to the parliament (Plattner 2008, p. 135). The original liberals but mainly consists of an explicit definition of inalienable human rights as codified in its legal base right.

The occasion had different historical experiences, which in comparison to ancient democracy to an enormous moral charge to incorporate the values stated. Here, are the one that fights for religious tolerance in the face to name the religious wars and other struggles for civil rights against the absolutist state. Another important experience that in the Theory of liberalism incorporated is the so-called majority- tyranny during the French Revolution. Despite these historical features, to the emergence of liberalism leading the values of freedom and equality, can be reduced to a more general level, but historical continuity of ancient to modern democracy with regard to the validity of these fundamental democratic values (Higley Burton 2006, p. 54).

This continuity argument of course, of the peculiarities of the so-called negative and positive liberty and Assignment to the Liberals and the ancient democracy abstracts and on similarities nevertheless exist between the ancient and Modern off. That personal freedom is the precondition for political freedom, encounter net us already at the time of Solon's reforms. Political freedom means in both the Antiquity and at modern times, the same right to participate in political decision- making processes, which located, in different institutional arrangements the first and second ...