Understanding Modern Democracy, in Theory
This article will attempt to depict some of the more relevant democratic theories that apply to the modern world, in both an educational and personal format, whilst also retaining a focus on empirical evidence that reinforces the importance of said theories.
Why is this important? Since the 2008 recession, politics within individual democracies has changed drastically, therefore an understanding of the theoretical aspects of democracy is a requirement for an informed electorate.
Primarily, can the modern world be categorised by one specific democratic theory?
To categorise the modern world into one specific democratic theory is impossible, as the world has a wide variety of political theocracies, democracies and autocracies, each with their own versions of an individual theory at their cores. As an example; although the USSR’s founding is seen as a socialist uprising, it is often regarded by revisionist historians as Stalinism not socialism, and later a true communist state following the death of Stalin himself and the initiation of de-Stalinization by Nikita Khrushchev.
Consequently, one could argue that as ‘socialism’ has its various branches such as the aforementioned, ‘democracy’ must also have its own branches — including overlap between the two, embodied by United States Senator Bernie…
