Domesticating Representative Democracy: Re-Inventing the People
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World politics has taken a dimension toward global democratization. An
undemocratic state is viewed as not having an objective existence among
comity of nations. Thus, there is a global attestation and fraternity with the
idea of democracy whether in theory or in reality. This deference for
democracy has led to the pretentious display by many nations to be
democratic. Obviously, given the nature of the modern societies,
Representative democracy becomes the most appropriate form of democracy
that nations could embrace in their quest for democratization. However, the
peculiar weakness of this form of democracy empowers men of weak moral
rectitude to exploit it to the detriment of the people whose consent is germane
to the enthronement and practice of democracy. Therefore, this paper
proposes Naturalized Democracy which the author considers as the most
appropriate form of democracy, beyond Representative democracy. The
weakness of Representative democracy is that it venerates and pays attention
more to the Representatives while Naturalized democracy focuses on the
people and holds the Representatives as stewards of the people.
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JA Political science (General)