Deliberative Democracy under the Influence of Populist Current
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DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF POPULIST CURRENT
Gabriela NEMTOI'
Abstract
The phrase deliberative democrag is attributed to the author Joseph Bessett, who in the
article Democrag the majority principle in republican government, publshed in 1980,
argued about a new form of democrag in contradiction ith classical democrag, about
deliberative democrag as an authentic alternative to traditional forms. In this respect, it is
admitted that the political deisions cannot be legitimized without an eary negotiation
dialogue [1: 1].
The rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe is ajustification for the
democratic crisis, a failure of representative politics after 1989. A negative effect of the
populist current was also seen in Romania, Hungary or Poland. In this sense, applying a
reorientation to a polig based on a deliberate democratic culture with populist influences
was considered to be a solution that wouldjustify the intererence between populism and a
deliberative democrag.
The participation in the vote of the citiZens of Eastern Europe who initially see
in the leftparties the popular interest is radically changing in the present, towards the rzght
parties that no longer identify ith pure rzghtprinles. Furthermore, movng populism
from the left foot to the right foot does not require saci ice. In the end, it all comes down to
changing symbols, changing vocabulary but within the same type o polip based on a
common aqy of thinking both left and rzght. The distinction between the two is greatly
minimiZed. The transitional period in which the executives put pressure on the law
institutions and themselves ith a rather weak identity, on the press, on the media,
allowed a reassessment of the transient moments, the populist discourse haring the capacity
to capture democrag of a populist state [2:132]. The diagnosis of the causes of the increase
of populism was based on two major pillars, one being the failure of the national
institutions located in the space of national constitutions and the second is the influence of
the international institutions of the EU and of the Council of Europe that do not wish to
sanction the fall towards populism [3:219].
1 Associate. Prof PhD, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava,
gabriela.nemtoi@fdsa.usv.ro
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