Radical democracy a critical study

Introduction Democracy is the dominating metaphor of twenty first century governance, especially after the dissolution of the Soviet Block. The domination is so well entrenched that today's governance, irrespective of the region of the globe, can only be significantly thought, philosophised and articulated in that metaphor. However, there is no one universal prescription of democracy. The regions of the globe with their different cultures, problems, requirements and levels of development display differences in implementation of democracy. Derrida characteristically, to explain the differences of implementation, insists on democracy being a singularity. The differences in the implementation or models of democracy have emerged and the concept therefore, while dominating is at the same time under scathing scrutiny with different articulations emerging. The thesis therefore looks at various contemporary articulations of democracy in an attempt to analyse and critique its emerging concepts. However, it was felt that overall theoretical approach and historical background of democracy be introduced to get a clear perspective on the topic. It is also in fitness of things to discuss the reasons for the ascribed importance of democratic theory in contemporary politics across the globe. Democracy in practice has explicated different models of good governance, varying from country to country and moving of non-democratic countries to democratic political governance systems. Before we talk about democratic governance and any study of democratization, it will help to get acquainted with the concept of democracy, including its history, and the minimum conditions that depict a democratic government. The earliest use of the idea of democracy arises from the Greek word 'Demokratia', to the French word 'Democratie' leading to the English word 'democracy', has been used with different objectives as political regimes. Etymologically the Greek word 'Demokratia' can be traced from the root words 'Demos' which means 'people' and the word 'Kratos or Xratos', which means 'rule', therefore 'demokratie' signifies the,
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