Democracy is not the best Political Ideology in the world, it is just that other systems are far worse than democracy. Moreover, It has not been implemented purely anywhere. Democracy has always been influenced by wealth, power, nepotism in the world.
Of course I get the point: the question is a about better or higher or deeper alternatives to democracy. Whence, dictatorship of any sort or color is certainly not an alternative.
Please allow me a historical take: democracy is rooted, so to speak, in the genes of the western civilization. However, this civilization is seriously ill. I'd call it a complex disease, or a chronic disease or also an acute disease the western world is suffering from.
If so, looking for alternatives to democracy would mean alternatives to this civilization. I' m on the optimist side: i do believe there are alternatives to democracy. A careful look at some ethnographic studies, to some socio-urban studies, to some local anthropological practices, to some emergent forms of wisdom and science do show that the are, as it happens, local alternatives to democracy that can become significant little by little and on larger scales.
Dear Carlos,
I think that the point is not the emerging of alternatives to democracy, but how much these alternatives can fit within an environment wider than the local o micro one where they are implemented...or, using your language, in which way a new form of civilization can replace the western one in terms of scalability setting.
Anyway, even if my English is not so good, I think that by answering in a reasonable way to your question could untie the philosophical, political and sociological Gordian knot of our times...
Best,
AP
I agree that democracy is the only way in the world for betterment of peoples life. I too agree with Rohit Sarma. But how to reduce the influencing factors as said by Sarma. Lack of awareness and political will are some of the reasons
Suggest what are the steps to be taken by Government, Political Parties and social activists to reduce illegal method practicing in elections. I think social audit is one way if the elected party to take stringent action such things in future.
Is there appreciable alternative to representative democracy? Representative democracy in Australia look pretty fair but with some shortcomings. Can we suggest alternative model for representative democracy?
Democracy is the political veneer of a commercially producing and trading community. It arises as a result of widespread trade and the social equality that comes from the free movement of people and goods.
Democracy is not a system of governance decided upon by whim or good argument.
Forms of government are biological expressions. This idea is explored in the Theory of Dual Morality and in the book Our Human Herds.
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