DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE-HISTORY END EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT
DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE-HISTORY END EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade of the 20th century, Giovanni Sartori suggested the idea that democracy is a symbol for most states on the world map. But, perhaps more than a symbolic value, democracy is today an institutional reality in more than half of the states that make up the United Nations. In Europe, however, a state cannot be a member of the Council of Europe if it does not meet the requirements imposed by democratic institutions and human rights are not respected. Democracy has been and has remained a factor that, throughout the ages, has conditioned and therefore accompanied social progress. So, democracy has developed and develops only to the extent that the relationship between the leaders and the governed tilts in favor of the latter, when the governed impose on the leaders through various ways and means - respect for the fundamental rights of the individual and nations.

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