İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Hülya EŞKİ UĞUZ, Fırat Harun YILMAZ

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.31198/idealkent.682923

Anahtar Kelimeler:Representative democracy,Crisis,Civil society organizations,Participatory democracy,Local governments

Özet: The foundations of representative democracy derived from the modernity project and the nation-state as the basic social unit are eroded today. The obligation of representative democracy to make room for participatory democracy practices besides its legitimacy forced Tekeli to think about how these two understandings of democracy can exist intertwined. This is a question of how democracies can be made more democratic and in his works; the question is answered on two different levels. At the first level, civil society organizations (CSOs) step forward and according to him, by enhancing the effectiveness of CSOs in the public sphere, the opportunity to enrich life, to realize pluralism and to open the way for individuals to become public subject should be given to CSOs. At another level, the role of existence place for individuals is assigned to local and in his understanding, local becomes one of the best means to integrate representative democracy with participatory democracy. Largely constructed around his thoughts, in this study, CSOs were addressed from different viewpoints as Tekeli did. At the outset, it was tried to reach out to the CSOs through the inefficacy of representative democracy and the development of participatory democracy. On the other side, as he points out, local governments were emphasized as the best practice level in making the performance of democracies satisfactory with participation.

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