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Transcending Debates over “People’s Sovereign Rights" and “Check and Balance" ——On Robert Dahl’s Democratic Theory
MA De-pu
2001, (7):
72-77.
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This paper attempts to introduce Dahl’s criticism on two models of democratic theories, “people’s sovereign rights” and “check and balance”. Dahl’s analysis of existing defects of Western multi-democratic society and suggestions for improving these defects are also discussed. The author holds that Dahl’s democratic theory offers several insightful ideas to us. First, democracy should be in line with the social conditions, and that development of democracy can not exceed that of the society; Second, socialist democracy can not be built up on the theoretical basis of peoples sovereign rights, instead, it should be based on autonomy and participation; Third, China’s socialist democracy should avoid the defects of Western democracy, and development of economic democracy should exceed political democracy.
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