Affiliation:
1. University of Southampton
Abstract
Democracy represents an increasingly fragile construction, which, in the contemporary ultra-globalised political environment, is constantly faced by an amalgam of challenges and threats, both merely social, rather economic and mixed — socio-economic. As of the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, democracy is undergoing a particularly complex period, in which political traditions find themselves disposed to systematic reconsiderations driven by steady conversions in civilian interests and values, as well as irregular perils of explicitly global significance, including the rise of populism and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Concentrating upon the conditions of the current democratic crisis, the given article provides a comprehensive evaluation of the applied viability of the two classical forms of democracy — liberal and direct.
Publisher
European Scientific Platform Publishing
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