THE ETHOS OF ELECTORAL DEMOCRACY: PROCEDURES AND VALUES
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A number of typologies of socio-political systems are presented in modern political theory. The watershed lines between them can be drawn for different reasons. The most fundamental of them is the difference of positions regarding the axiological and procedural foundations of democracy. Adherents of the point of view, which goes back to the Platonic-Aristotelian understanding, defend the position that in any form of democracy, its power and legal institutions should be aimed at achieving the common good and be consistent with certain value postulates and moral norms. Proponents of the second point of view advocate the priority of specially developed democratic procedures to achieve social harmony while maintaining contradictions between various personal and group interests. The article attempts to reveal the dialectic of the correlation between the axiological and procedural-institutional foundations of democracy.
Keywords: democracy, justice, elections, human rights, freedoms
