Sunday, June 21, 2009

Totalitarian democracies

When you come to see these terms together, it visualizes as completely contradictory in itself.
Anyone that has in mind democratic governments imagine that people have full participation in their election. Well, sometimes, this is not so.
The Israeli historian J. L. Talmon, uses this term, to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.

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