In 1918, Czechoslovakia consisted of Slovakia and Czech. Czechoslovakia as a new country had experienced from capitalism to socialism, and then became capitalism. On 1st January 1993, Czechoslovakia was divided two parts-Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. Since 1918, Slovakia has been experienced nearly hundred years of presidential election, it’s riched the democratic systerm in Slvoakia.The democracy of presidential election in Slovakia has shown the trend of the development of democracy, and which in accordance with the development of modern democratic theory. Since Locke presented the theory in 17 th century, representative democracy, as a main theory to guide the practice of democracy in democratic countries has had a long history. However in 1960-70 s, the drawbacks of representative democracy have been appeared in the practice of modern democratic,participatory democracy as a remedy has been revived. We called it revival, because participatory democracy is the reappear of the democracy in Athens, the Ancient Greek city-state. This theory emphasizes people’s participation.The author intends to the research and study the presidential election system during the Slovakia in Czechoslovakia period as well as the independence period, and Combined with the development of representative democracy and participatory democracy in presidential election system in Slovakia, and Came to the conclusion: in presidential elections in Slovakia, representative democracy and participatory democracy are not always opposite. In practice, representative democracy and participatory democracy exhibited mutual promotion is the trend of Slovak presidential election democratic.This article is divided into six parts, the full text of more than 21000 words. The part of Introduction, describes the reasons for selection, literature review and research articles and methods of thinking. Among them, the literature review part describes each of the representative democracy scholars’ basic ideas of participatory democracy at home and abroad, and development status of them.The second part focuses on the differences and links between participatory democracy and representative democracy. Provide a theoretical basis for the presidential elections in Slovakia democracy.The third part will focus on the theory of representative democracy in Czechoslovakia Slovakia period(1918- 1992) as reflected in the presidential election. Since during this period, Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia, the author will conduct a comprehensive sort of presidential elections in Czechoslovakia, but the focus will be presidential elections in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia.The fourth part will focus on the issue of presidential election of representative democracy and participatory democracy of Slovakia(1993- 2009). In 1999, Slovakia had paased a Constitution amendment of the presidential election:from elected by the National Assembly to a secret ballot election for president by direct, secret national elections. This change is important to participatory democracy in presidential elections in Slovakia, so the author will make a contrast of the Slovak Constitution before and after.The fifth part will describes the 2014 presidential election in Slovakia embodied participatory democracy. During this election,the biggest highlight is between the independent candidate Andrej Kiska(assuming the presidency on June 15, 2014) and the current Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico. Since it’s happened in this year, the author will make a detailed presentation of 2014 presidential elections in Slovakia, and also make summary of the practice and theory of participatory democracy.The sixth part is the conclusion part, the author will make a summary of the presidential election in Slovakia, i.e. the trend from representative democracy to participatory democracy. In order to illustrate the interdependence status of participatory democracy and representative democracy is a trend of modern democracy. |