The Problem with Democracy
The Problem with Democracy
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民主的问题
DOI：
10.1093/pa/gsv008
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Flinders M
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作者：
Flinders M
毫无疑问，在所有伟大的“经久不衰的思想”中，很少有像“民主”这样对现代生活如此重要的。事实上，一个正在进行的学术监测项目到目前为止已经对这种社会组织模式的500多种变体、形式或亚种进行了编目。因此，这既是一个带有形容词的概念，也是一个带有某种形象问题的概念，这一点反映在一部围绕着人们眼中的“心怀不满的民主党人”的增长的大量文献中。那么，民主有什么问题呢？这篇文章的回应是指出了民主的七个问题，而不是一个，这些问题交织在一起，揭示了我们重新想象一种不同的生活方式、重新联系我们周围的人、重新将挑战解释为机遇或重新定义我们如何理解和运作民主的能力正在消亡。
There can be little doubt that of all the great ‘enduring ideas’ there can be few so central to modern life around the world as ‘democracy’. Indeed, an ongoing academic monitoring project has so far catalogued over 500 variants, forms or sub-species of this model of social organisation. It is therefore both a concept with adjectives and also a concept with something of an image problem and this is reflecting in a vast literature that revolves around the perceived growth of ‘disaffected democrats’. So what is the problem with democracy? This article responds by identifying not one but seven ‘problems’ with democracy which, when woven together, reveal a withering away of our capacity to re-imagine a different way of living; to re-connect with those around us; to re-interpret challenges as opportunities or to re-define how we understand and make democracy work.