Racja państwa i demokracji
Reason of State and Democracy

Summary/Abstract: THE MAJORITY OF contemporary states boast of democratic legitimization and therefore want to see the true source of their power in people. The problem of creating a social system in which – on the one hand – all of the citizens have a real influence on governing their state and – on the other one – which is technically efficient, makes one of the most significant questions that still has not been settled in the theory of democracy. Formation of sovereign states has been accompanied by a process of building of nations. Each national community is – by principle – democratic. However, such a description of reality does not correspond to the history of Europe. It is difficult, for example, to fit the history of Poland properly in it: neglecting the short period aft er the regaining of its independence in 1918, basing on the model of polyarchy and taking into account the conditions of a sovereign state, Poland was not able to commence the building of democracy until 1989, in the conditions of division and polarization.

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