Paradox of Democracy: A Critical Assessment

Vol-07 | Issue-12 | December-2020 | Published Online: 05 December 2020    PDF ( 163 KB )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53573/rhimrj.2020.v07i12.007
Author(s)
Torab Ali 1

1M. Phil Research Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Jadavpur University

Abstract

Philosophers and thinkers have made a decent attempt to detail some standardizing framework to advance at any rate human prosperity. It was in this capacity of scholars and mastermind that advanced the idea of ‘Democracy’ as arrangement of administration in antiquated Greece, seeing the introduction of Athens as a City State at some point in the year 508-507 BCE. Athens, the City State, seen a change from despotic to majority rule. The dynamic included the residents straightforwardly, who were permitted to talk and cast a ballot in the gathering outlining laws of the City-State. To keep up fair-mindedness the administrative and legal authorities were chosen arbitrarily. Athens even till today is viewed as the ideal of majority rule government, a type of direct where each resident had equivalent option to partake in dynamic of the City State. Vote based system as a type of government has developed hypothetically from direct to circuitous or delegate structure and again structure the investment of the favored Greek residents to participatory structure where all residents are important for the dynamic cycle. Be that as it may, in this paper I propose to display the various models have left a sample of discriminatory circulation of force in opposition to the fundamental nature of democracy of populism, bringing about divided cooperation in the force structure.

Keywords
Democracy, Direct Democracy, Indirect Democracy, Liberalism.
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