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dc.contributor.authorVella, Mary Grace-
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-13T07:44:44Z-
dc.date.available2020-04-13T07:44:44Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationVella, M. G. (2020). Democracy : from theory to dictatorial dyspraxia to anarchist eupraxia. Symposia Melitensia, 16, 287-298.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/54037-
dc.description.abstractIn theory: Democracy is the “rule of the people by the people and for the people” (Lincoln, 1863). In practice: “Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few” (Shaw, 1903). This paper addresses the gap between democratic theory and practice by attempting to analyse “democracy’s crisis of meaning” (Trend, 1996:7). It examines the processes through which the theoretical ideal of rule by the people is despoiled to dictatorial practices, typified by regimes of democratic dictatorship arising from the authoritarian rule of representative forms of democracy resulting in the tyranny of the powerful, to regimes of dictatorial democracy arising from the totalitarian rule of global neo-liberal capitalism. These contradictions indeed suggest “more than a simple gap between theory and practice” (Trend, 1996:9) and demand a new praxis for democracy. Despite the hegemonic dyspraxia of these kleptocratic and corporatocratic regimes on both a local and global level, the eupraxia of anarchism through co-operative forms of self-governance offers a glimpse of hope for democratising democracy by closing the gap between theory and practice.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Malta. Junior Collegeen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_GB
dc.subjectDemocracyen_GB
dc.subjectDictatorshipen_GB
dc.subjectPolitical corruptionen_GB
dc.subjectRacketeeringen_GB
dc.subjectAnarchismen_GB
dc.titleDemocracy : from theory to dictatorial dyspraxia to anarchist eupraxiaen_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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dc.description.reviewedpeer-revieweden_GB
dc.publication.titleSymposia Melitensiaen_GB
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