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Kravchenko O.A..
Democracy as an institution for revealing the will of the people
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2022. – № 1.
– P. 28-41.
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Abstract: The subject of the study is democracy and approaches to its definition through the prism of revealing the will of the people, as well as issues of the implementation of democracy in constitutional and legal reality. The author examines in detail the necessary and sufficient conditions for the implementation of democracy on the basis of three approaches. The first approach defines democracy as the participation of all (the people) in public administration. The second approach is widespread in jurisprudence and expresses the totality of a different set of legal conditions and procedures, as well as relationships regarding the delegation of power from the people to the public administration. The third approach, which has appeared quite recently in science, is a kind of synthesis of the first two, but is focused on the result of procedural aspects of democracy.
В The thesis concept is based on the following political and legal postulates of understanding democracy, state power and elections: 1) the objective regularity of any state power is its desire to continue to possess it; 2) a democratic state is more effective than an undemocratic one, since it has legal institutions that allow limiting the usurpation of state power by any one political force; 3) a democratic state differs from an undemocratic one by the possibility of changing political power nonviolently through elections, the result which is not predetermined in advance.
By virtue of the first postulate, in the electoral systems of states, there is a possibility of seizing and retaining state power in violation of democracy by distorting the will of the people, since the state authorities of the previous composition, acting as organizers of the elections, are interested in maintaining the status quo.
In this connection, a comprehensive mechanism is needed to limit the possibility of usurpation of state power during elections at the stages of organizing voting, summarizing its results and establishing the results of elections (referendums).
Keywords: election credibility, the theory of democracy, votes of voters, reliability of voting, democracy, sovereignty of the people, the will of the people, power, people, sovereignty
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