DEMOCRATIC STATE FORMS: CLASSICAL MODEL AND MODERN VARIANTS

Pojam demokracija označava pluralistički oblik vlasti u kojem sve odluke neke države donosi izravno ili neizravno većina njezinih građana kroz izbore. Kad su ti uvjeti ispunjeni, vlast se može opisati kao demokratska. To vrijedi za razne sustave upravljanja jer se ti pojmovi mogu kombinirati i s drugim vrstama vlasti. Drugim riječima, demokracija je politička ideja o vladavini u kojoj sudjeluju svi članovi zajednice (narod), izravnim odlučivanjem ili posredno putem izabranih predstavnika. Isto tako, za demokraciju je važno istaknuti kako ista predstavlja politički poredak u kojem vlada većina, uz osiguranje prava manjine, te individualnih prava svakoga građanina i time je protivna onim oblicima vladavine u kojima narod nema vrhovnu vlast, nego njime upravlja neki pojedinac ili skupina (monarhija, tiranija, despocija, aristokracija, oligarhija).The term democracy refers to a pluralistic form of government in which all decisions of a state are made directly or indirectly by the majority of its citizens through elections. When these conditions are met, power can be described as democratic. This is true for various management systems because these terms can be combined with other types of government. In other words, democracy is a political idea of governance in which all members of the community (the people) participate, directly or indirectly through elected representatives. It is also important for democracy to emphasize that it represents a political order in which the majority rules, while ensuring the rights of minorities and individual rights of each citizen and thus is contrary to those forms of government in which the people do not have supreme power but are governed by an individual or group ( monarchy, tyranny, despotism, aristocracy, oligarchy)