TY - JOUR

T1 - Civil Society and Theory of Democracy: From the Legacy of the 20th Century

AU - Gutorov, Vladimir

AU - Koryushkin, Alexander

AU - Zavershinskiy, Konstantin

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The authors explore a problem of correlation between institutions of civil society and liberal democracy. More specifically, they examine a phenomenon of “double democratization” (D. Held) that entails a) a separation of the state and civil society as a socially recognized necessity; and b) a consequent interdependent transformation of both the state and the civil society. These social processes are examined within a context of decades-long multifaceted theoretical debates between proponents of the liberal school of political philosophy and neo-Marxist theorists of the Frankfurt school (H. Marcuse, J. Habermas, etc.). Analysis of major stages in this debate shows that despite differences in argumentation, proponents of these two opposing schools of thought share a conviction that an effective policy of the state is capable of overcoming spontaneously emerging crises by directing resources to achieve specific goals. Both schools agree that power in a democratic state depends on endogenous factors: either on an

AB - The authors explore a problem of correlation between institutions of civil society and liberal democracy. More specifically, they examine a phenomenon of “double democratization” (D. Held) that entails a) a separation of the state and civil society as a socially recognized necessity; and b) a consequent interdependent transformation of both the state and the civil society. These social processes are examined within a context of decades-long multifaceted theoretical debates between proponents of the liberal school of political philosophy and neo-Marxist theorists of the Frankfurt school (H. Marcuse, J. Habermas, etc.). Analysis of major stages in this debate shows that despite differences in argumentation, proponents of these two opposing schools of thought share a conviction that an effective policy of the state is capable of overcoming spontaneously emerging crises by directing resources to achieve specific goals. Both schools agree that power in a democratic state depends on endogenous factors: either on an

KW - democracy

KW - liberalism

KW - conservatism

KW - Marxism

KW - civil society

KW - state

KW - legitimacy

KW - social consciousness

KW - cognitive mobilization

KW - state bureaucracy

U2 - 10.3923/sscience.2016.6134.6140

DO - 10.3923/sscience.2016.6134.6140

M3 - Article

VL - 11

SP - 6134

EP - 6140

JO - SOCIAL SCIENCES (PAKISTAN)

JF - SOCIAL SCIENCES (PAKISTAN)

SN - 1818-5800

IS - 25

ER -