Konec demokracije?

Lukšič, Andrej (author)

Avtor vprašanje demokracije postavi v kontekst kapitalistične družbe in jo prikazuje v več razvojnih fazah, ki so rezultat spreminjanja družbenih in političnih razmerij moči, ob tem pa si ne dela utvar, da kapitalizem lahko deluje tudi brez demokracije. Demokracijo povezuje s pravno državo in vztraja, da je pravna država nujni pogoj demokracije, ni pa je mogoče z njo nadomestiti. Z vztrajanjem na tej ideji se tlakuje pot v avtoritarnost. Demokracijo opredeljuje tudi skozi razmerje vladani in vladajoči ter opozarja, da je demokracija le ena od možnih oblik tega razmerja. Spreminjanje demokracije v kapitalistični družbi in njen možen zdrs v avtoritarnost povezuje tudi z delovanjem glavnih akterjev znotraj danih in vendarle vedno spreminjajočih se strukturnih in kulturnih razmer, ki so rezultat predhodnega delovanja akterjev in razmerja moči med njimi.

• Language: Slovenian
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2009
• Number of pages: Str. 537-558
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-23040
• UDC: 321.7
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 29003869
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2014

Record is a part of a proceedings

• Title: [Konec demokracije? Možne nove paradigme]
• COBISS.SI-ID: 29003357

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: English

Abstract

The author raises the question of democracy in the context of a capitalist society. He shows democracy in several development phases which are the result of changing social and political power, knowing at the same time that capitalism can function without democracy. He links democracy with the rule of law and insists that the rule of law is a necessary condition of democracy, but democracy cannot be replaced by the rule of law. Persisting with this idea means paving the way for authoritarianism. He defines democracy by the relationship between the rulers and the ruled and points out that democracy is only one possible form of this relationship. The change of democracy in a capitalist society and its potential to slip into authoritarianism is linked with the activity of protagonists within the given and yet always changing structural and cultural conditions, which are the outcome of the previous activity of protagonists and the balance of power between them.