“DEMOCRACY: A STATE OF DEMOS OR AN OLIGARCH’S PARTY STATE? AN INTERPRETATION OF MODERNITY’S NOTION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE MODERN GREEK STATE”
“DEMOCRACY: A STATE OF DEMOS OR AN OLIGARCH’S PARTY STATE? AN INTERPRETATION OF MODERNITY’S NOTION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE MODERN GREEK STATE”

Summary/Abstract: The key objective of this study is to clarify the actual use of democracy in current era. Taking as a case study the Modern Greek state we are trying to explain and understand the key figures of its political system in terms of democracy notion. Starting from George Contogeorgis’s assumption that the modern political system is neither democratic nor representative, we try to examine the internal sociopolitical structure of Modern’s Greek State. The main working assumption is whether democracy is the foundation of politics, i.e. the state of demos, or is the core instrument of political parties so as to occupy the executive branch and establish an oligarch political regime. We will show, how the development and understanding of democracy in Western Europe and Greece in particular, is totally different from its classical conception. The analytical starting point is the assumption that the political system of western democracy presented as an indirect representation creates a gap between society and policy, which disables the latter from its physical role as a mandator of the government. By extending the above- mentioned syllogism into the Modern Greek State, in accordance with George Contogeorgis’s assumption that the modern political system is neither democratic nor representative, can be described the roots of current sociopolitical and economic impasse in Greece.

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