Crisis of Democracy – The Future of Democracy

April 2003, Dr. Werner T. Bauer, 37 Pages

With an „Austrian Convent“, comprehensive reforms of the constitution, state and administration are to be developed in Austria this year. This work aims to identify the most important causes of the current “Crisis of Democracy” which has manifested itself in the disenchantment with politics, decreasing voter turnout and quiet resignation toward the gradual dismantling of basic democratic principles. In the second part, we try to show how democracy could develop and renew itself in the coming years and decades. Patent solutions can and should not be offered here. In our view, this is precisely one of the foundations of a strong and democratic order within a modern and pluralistic societal system: The rejection of seemingly simple solutions when trying to cope with ever more complex questions in a multi-connected world.

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