Disadvantage Of Western Democracy

Currently, democracy in the world has become a mainstream ideology, democratic politics is widely praise and respected. However, when we review the development of democratic in the course of time,we will see that democracy has also been a number of questions and critical thinkers from the ancient Greece to the modern,. The reason is that both democracy and other systems do not have significant advantages. At the same time, democracy in its development process is also faced with the plight of many other political systems and the like, as there are many disadvantages.This article mainly from the essence of democracy and procedure of democratic perspective, through its analysis of the defects in order for democracy to have a comprehensive knowledge, in order to avoid blind obedience and blind faith in democracy.In the first chapter of democracy and the essence of the connotation and value of democratic procedures and academic. Democracy is a kind of essence of rationalism and idealism or even utopia of democracy. With its emphasis on democracy as well as freedom and justice of the ultimate value. Democracy is not only realize common "good" means, and the purpose is for the people to pursue goal. Democracy is a critical process, descriptive and institutional democracy. Democracy as a democratic procedures to protect personal freedom of a kind of means and achieve the goal of politics, it emphasizes democracy itself is a kind of means, is a tool, a way to the ultimate goal.In chapter 2 of the democratic essence analyses defects. Democratic essence "political equality", "the people's sovereignty" and "the majority rule" and "general" as its value connotation. Democracy is the ultimate ideal realize people's democratic rule, the subject of "people" and "moral and collective community". The concept of "people" in "legitimacy" have deep meaning, but in reality, people's political concept is a fictional autocratic ruler and easy to use, the essence of democracy is easy to become the legal coat despotism. "Most people emphasize essence of democracy, the rule of or "the rule of the people", in many thinkers, is a Utopian fantasies, "instead of ideal. Not only in reality, and easy to realize "the majority tyranny" and "the most social tyranny" consequences. Democratic theory essence and the power of the state ownership, attention and ignore state properties and national power boundaries, the democratic republic "to" the cognitive nature of existence "goodness" tendency in democracy, the intrinsic value of "equality" and "public interest" process, easy to cause the expansion of state power, the power of the state and is not restricted.In chapter 3 of the democratic process analyzes the defects. More attention is democratic procedures, the value of individual freedom, democracy is the procedural justice is the essence of citizens and power, rather than power. Therefore, the process of democratic theory will be democratic theory of state power to explore how to control and inhibition of state power. In system design, through competitive elite elections, constitutional, decentralization, society means to realize the balance of power restriction of personal freedom, and realized the protection. However, in this process, also caused the public domain and lack of public participation of citizens, not substantive political elections, only is short, symbolic and form of citizen's political participation, the tool, the citizens to become vote democratic become elite ruling legitimacy means to obtain. While there are many of the democratic process defect, there exist many problems, mainly displays in: not really reflect the voting preferences; voters' Vote for policy can really reflect the strength of the voters, Elections to be "money" game, Voters can really affect by election public policy. Program by the elite and democracy with support of interest groups, an elite and realize the goal of politics interest groups.In a word, whether democratic essence or program democracy while there are many obvious advantages, but there are also many shortcomings. We must be calm, prudent to democracy and cannot follow even to superstition. whether it is the essence of democracy or the democratic procedures. there are many obvious advantages, but there are also many disadvantages. We need a calm, careful treatment of democracy can not be blindly or even superstition.