Thoughts and Reflections on Democracy

 The clash of the Titans. Conservatives versus Liberals

In times of great social changes, societies experience a drift between conservatives and liberal forces.

The conservatives usually strive for maintaining the sociopolitical order (the status-quo).

Liberals struggle to produce social change.

There have always been and always would be people that tend to preserve the sociopolitical rules and norms and to preserve their privileges, while others would try to push for change (reform).

The manner the situations are dealt with differentiates between revolutions and progressive legislative reforms.


Democracy as a concept was at first inspired by the writings of The Enlightenment School.

The democratic and liberal ideas that set the bases for the modern state were assumed by people who got inspired by  Enlightenment's writings.

Some societies escalated the ideas in the form of social conflict in order to reach democracy, as we know it today.

Revolutions that rapidly propagated throughout Europe were born based on these liberal and democratic ideas.

In some societies, the struggle for democracy escalated the social conflict in the form of Revolutions, inspired by France. (1789; 1848)

Some others have followed the path of gradual, but stable legislative reform through The Legislative Body (The Parliament), as is the case of Great Britain.

However, in the case of Great Britain's pathway towards democracy, there were large well-known protest movements organized by campaigners for the social change, but their public manifestation was in peaceful and non-violent manners.


Social conflicts escalate when there is not enough social debate about the issue in the public sphere.

The avoidance of the escalations of conflicts is ensured by citizens’ participation in the public debates.

Political participation of citizens in the democratic game ensures the existence of a healthy civil society.

The debates on important issues among policy-makers, the civil society and the media lead to social consensus.

Building bridges of communication among us will establish social consensus.



Today, we are witnessing the emergence of the International Community.

The International Community should represent all the communities of people around the world. 

Nowadays, the community is international, the issues and their solutions are global, the involvment is transnational and intergovernmental. 


We are living in an interconnected world; the issues that need to be addressed outreach the formal states' borders or frontiers. 

The public sphere for the civil society becomes global.  

Social consensus sets the bases for a global democracy.

Social consensus may be reached when all the silent voices get the chance to be heard.

Let the silent voices be heard and we shall have freedom of speech.

Let people unite in their hopes and dreams and they will become a global free society.


As we are living in times of great geopolitical and sociopolitical changes, the old conservative versus liberal (the avant-garde generation) drift gets reinforced from time to time on global stage.

Sometimes, the moderates succeed to bring social consensus and mutual collaboration among the various social groups that are debating for the general good of the given society (national or international).

It's like a clash of the titans where moderates may play their part in order to bring a stable gradual social change.



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Democracy, Citizenship and International Community. What is Democracy?

Democracy, Citizenship and International Community
                                    What is Democracy?

                                     by Diana Rogers 

 

                                       

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Table of Contents

1. Charismatic Leadership. The Political Leader emerged from the Crowd
2. What is Democracy?
3. Democracy in the World. Historical Glance
3.1. The struggle for Democracy in Europe
3.1.1. Theories on European Revolutions
3.1.2. Western Europe
3.1.3. Democracy in Eastern and Central Europe
3.1.4. Democracy in Eurasia
3.1.5. Democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall
3.2. The struggle for Democracy in US
3.2.1. The birth of the US electoral democracy
3.2.2. The Birth of the United States of America
3.2.3. The extension of the suffrage base to women
3.2.4. A lesson in the history of Democracy and a living proof of the American Dream
3.2.4.1. Struggling for Freedom and achieving it
3.2.4.2. The Civil Rights Movement and its vocational messianic leader
3.2.4.3. Barrack Obama. The ultimate pacifier leader of the world
3.3. The South African Revolution towards Democracy
3.4. Latin America’s “wavering democracies”
3.5. The Arab Spring
3.6. Freedom in the World (2013)
4. Ideologies in the Post-modern Era. Was it the End of Time?
4.1. Contemporaneous Doctrines and Ideologies
4.2. Shaping the mainstream climate of opinion
4.3. Conclusions. Was it the End of Time?
5. Citizenship and Community
5.1. Building the “nation”. Constructing the national identity
5.2. Citizenship
5.3. Civic citizenship
5.4. Building transnational communities
5.4.1. EU and European citizenship
5.4.2. The International Community. UN and International citizenship
6. General References and Further Readings



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What is Democracy? Theory and Practice (The Global Democratic Society)

What is Democracy? Theory and Practice

by Diana Rogers

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My book focuses on the theory and practice of Democracy since the dissemination of democratic ideas until nowadays.

My book focuses on the theory and practice of Democracy since the beginning of the democratic ideas until nowadays.

My approach emphasizes on Democracy and Human Rights as concepts that enforce each other.

In today’s world politics, UN is the International Organization that gathers the most member states and functions both as a legal agreement between member states (60 nations) and as their public agora, by the existence of the UN General Assembly under the UN Charter.

The General Assembly may serve as the place where the political leaders of the nations express their political views and share them with the international community.

This, in turns, raises awareness on the given political issue and creates incentives of approaching the issue in terms of solutions and effective efforts in the direction of solving the given issue by the international community, operating under the UN Charter.

The UN Charter signed by every member state needs to be respected.

This points out the statesmen responsibility towards ensuring the legislative reform process in their countries in order to enforce human rights and freedoms.

Once the legislative reform enacted, the country turns into a formal democracy.

The UN also serves as a place where diplomacy and customs may be formed regarding the relations among statesmen that encourages them to cooperate and peacefully resolve their issues.

The second part of the book addresses the historical period from the inception and propagation of the democratic ideas to their implementation at the level of the political system.

I point out various theoretical definitions, classifications and distinctions referring to democracy as a concept and a form of government.

I also trace the birth of the Modern Era observing the two main archetypal models of political changes towards democracy from the European continent: France and Great Britain.

My book ends with the reinforcement of the idea of the charismatic leadership and stresses the need of public legitimating for the political leader emerged from the crowds.

The book ends in a symmetrical manner.

It started with emphasizing the role of the political leaders within the framework of The UN General Assembly and ends with the importance of leadership.

If you feel to share your point of you on democracy, I am looking forward to interact and share opinions with you.

Happy readings.

Diana Rogers

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