Conference paper
FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Peter Graf Kielmansegg
; Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland
Abstract
The author analyzes two hypotheses: about the end of history and the end of democracy. It has turned out that Fukuyama’s thesis that the principle of liberal democracy has outlasted its competition is valid, but only, as Guéhenno claims, when the conditions for democratic politics have disappeared Guéhenno does not refute Fukuyama’s thesis but only declares it irrelevant. He finds the rationale for this in the deterritorialization of politics i.e. politics is eluding democracy. This also means that the state is no longer important for politics. The author relativizes this thesis in two ways: first he shows that there are still the spheres in territorially limited spaces where politics is hugely influential. Second, the state remains the foundation for all political structures that are set up at the regional or the global level. He concludes that despite its vicissitudes the state, and consequently democracy, have a future. And finally, the author refers to Tata Vahnen who claims that the expansion of democracy is linked with a more equitable distribution of the resources of power.
Keywords
future of democracy; democracy; state; end of democracy; end of history
Hrčak ID:
24254
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2002.
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