Authentic Democracy and Compatibility with Representation

Running head: DIVERSITY DEMOCRACY DISSENT
Authentic Democracy and Compatibility with Representation
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1DIVERSITY DEMOCRACY DISSENT
Democracy is a governing inspiration where citizens have the privilege of electing
their representative as the government in an independent and liberal environment (Blühdorn
2013). In this paper, the principle of authentic democracy has been analysed with its
compatibility in the current political environment throughout the globe. Criticising the
democratic representation is another aspect of this paper. The fundamental structure and
practical implementation of democracy have been analysed with its operational classification
and implementation. The position of youth perception and its effect on current political
conflicts has been criticised in this paper with an appropriate example of various democratic
approaches. The fundamental, practical and conceptual differences between Procedural
Democracy and Authentic Democracy have been discussed to find the most applicable
modification of modern politics.
Democracy is a system of governing a nation by empowering the citizen’s rights and
decision making within any operational field of the government. In more simple approach,
democracy is a governing idea where citizens have the right to elect their government in an
independent and liberal environment (Cohen and Allen 2013). However, there are some
ideological conflicts among various definitions of proper democratic practices. Moreover, the
democratic practice allows the common people to select their representatives as a governing
body to rule the nation as per the boundaries of respective constitutions. However,
Democracy does not only mean free and independent election system. Rather, appreciating
the privileges of common citizens and their rights in every aspect of governing the nation is
the pillar of the democratic approach. From the early stage of modern civilization, democracy
had a different way of exposure (Cooke 2018). Democratic structure of each nation is
individual considering individual national and cultural identities.
As per the most modern democratic approaches, democracy is more related to
participation of people, human rights, rules of low and constitutional practices rather than

2DIVERSITY DEMOCRACY DISSENT
focusing on the elective power of the people. This diverted implementation is causing
frequent political and socio-cultural chaos across the world. Legal equality, political freedom,
and constitutional rule are the three main pillar of a democratic nation. On the other hand,
other parts of the human civilization also include the judicial review as a part of their
democratic structure.
Democracy can be classified into two ideological approaches namely Procedural
Democracy and Authentic Democracy. Procedural democracy is largely related to capitalist
democracy, while authentic democracy is more emphasised on direct approach of socialised
democracy (Foster 2013). For both of these practices, corruption can make meaning of
democracy nothing but an empty slogan. Procedural democracy is more emphasised on the
bill of rights and protect minorities. However, authentic democracy encourages the
independent and liberal civilisation having equal legal and economical constraints. Authentic
democracy is more focused providing basic needs of citizens like health, food, shelter and
education in exchange for very less amount of domestic value (Gardiner et al. 2014).
From the age of evaluated monarchy system, the authentic democracy has been
dominated by other democratic ideologies. However, according to some researcher, only
democracy cannot provide political and personal freedom unless the institutions of civil
society are also present. Most of the western countries follow the democratic approach of
Parliamentary sovereignty while maintaining judicial independence (Mirra et al. 2013).
However, other parts of the human civilization also include the judicial review as a part of
their democratic structure. Authentic democracy is possible only in presence of constitutional
laws and the basis of the proper conception of political and governing approaches.
Recently, there is a tendency of claiming the agnosticism and sceptical relativism
implementing the philosophy and the fundamental approach correspond to democratic forms