A Chinese Interpretation of the 5·18 Democratization Movement: From Liberal Democracy to Social Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Suk Hyun Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Social Democracy

Democracy and Good Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Henk Addink
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government

Democracy is about government and governance by the people in different forms. Democracy is direct or by representation. Sovereignty of the people, however, is not the same as democracy. The position of minorities related to majorities, in a democracy, is not always easy to regulate. This situation has made clear that democracy also has qualitative contents and it is even clearer when we speak about democracy in the sense of a liberal democracy or of a social democracy. Two key elements in and topics related to democracy are the participation of the people and the elections by the people and the transparency of the government. There are some restrictions in a representative democracy and, for that reason, participation will be necessary to maintain the connection between the government and the people. But to have an adequate functioning of this participation and of the elections, transparency on behalf of the government is a necessary condition for a democracy.

Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon S. Wolin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Communist Manifesto ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines the work of Richard Rorty, perhaps the leading philosopher, or lapsed philosopher, of postmodernism. His writings are one of the few, perhaps the only, major attempts to ally postmodernism with liberal democracy, rather than with Marxism or social democracy. He has supplied a focus to his writings that is as remarkable in its way, and as revealing, as the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. The right questions, he writes in postmodernese, are “like” “What is it to inhabit a rich twentieth-century democratic society?” and “How can an inhabitant of such a society be more than the enactor of a role in a previously written script?” The first question would seem to be simply answered by saying, “Enjoy it.” But the second question carries a note of dissatisfaction; it is certainly not outrage or even sharply critical.

The Political Theory of Social Democracy

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Levine
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Positive Side

For more than two decades, C. B. Macpherson has waged a relentless campaign to expose and critize the ‘possessive individualist’ assumptions of classical and liberal democratictheory. This new book —a collection of essays, including several not previously published —gives a clear focus to this campaign and provides the fullest expression to date of its positive side: the elaboration of a social philosophy incorporating liberal values but free from possessive individualist assumptions. What is defective in the assumptions is less the internal theoretical problems they generate than that they have become historically outmoded. For Macpherson, liberal democracy is historically — even politically — inadequate, before it is theoretically inadequate. It is inadequate for us — now — because it rests on assumptions we no longer need, assumptions that have ceased to be historically progressive. However, liberal democracy is not, as surgeons would say, beyond operation. On Macpherson's view, nearly everything that is attractive in liberal theory can be salvaged. Democratic Theory is appropriately subtitled: Essays in Retrieval.

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