Democracy

Question 0

Conservatives democracy

Answer 0

Endorse liberal-democratic rule but with qualifications about the need to protect property and traditional institutions from the untutored will of ‘the many’. The new right, however, has linked electoral democracy to the problems of over government and economic stagnation

Question 1

Liberals democracy

Answer 1

Liberals understand democracy in individualist terms as consent expressed through the ballot box, democracy being equated with regular and competitive elections. Whilst democracy constrains abuses of power, it must always be conducted with in a constitutional framework in order to prevent majoritarian tyranny.

Question 2

Socialists democracy

Answer 2

Traditionally endorsed a form of radical democracy based on popular participation and the desire to bring economic life under public control, dismissing liberal democracy as simply capitalist democracy. Nevertheless, modern social Democrats are now firmly committed to liberal democratic structures.

Question 3

Anarchists democracy

Answer 3

Endorse direct democracy and call for continuous popular participation and radical decentralisation. Electoral or representative democracy is merely a facade that attempts to conceal elite domination and reconcile the masses to their oppression.