The Aggression of Elective Autocracy Over Parliamentary Democracy

• Author: Ioan Alexandru
• Pages: 13-16

Legal Sciences in the New Millennium

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Legal Sciences in the New Millennium

The Aggression of Elective Autocracy

Over Parliamentary Democracy

Ioan Alexandru1

Abstract: We must admit that D emocracy is one of the words that started to lose their initial meaning due to

the over-use within the political language and not o nly there, and thus we might say that many times has it

become an empty word, almost meaningless. It is enough to follow, within mass-media, one the one hand, the

manner of parliamentary activities and, on the other hand, to notice the important and frequent protests all

around the world, but more often in Europe and Latin America, by means of which one questions their

activity and that of the governments and where one can see special police forces, Molotov cocktails, tear gas

and all other repressive materials. To easily understand what is going on, I have analyzed the concept of

democracy by opposition to other three concepts of dichotomic political regimes: autocracy, dictatorship,

communism and fundamentalism

Keywords: Democracy; autocracy; dictatorship; communism and fundamentalism

Not too long ago, to be more precise, on the 4th of February 2016, at the Romanian Academy, in the

library amphitheater, there was a scientific debate occasioned by the issuing of my book, Elective

Autocracy vs. Parliamentary Democracy. The speakers were Alexandru Surdu, member and Vice-

president of the Romanian Academy, professor of political science Adrian Miroiu, PhD, who wrote

the foreword of my book, Dan-Claudiu Dănișor, at that time rector of the Craiova University, Mircea

Duțu, director of the Romanian Academy Institute of Juridical Sciences, the host of the debate, Dana

Tofan from the University of Bucharest, and senior lecturer of political sciences Diana-Camelia Iancu,

PhD, dean of the Faculty of Public Administration with NSPAS.

They all spoke about the chances of parliamentary democracy faced with the almost aggressive

attempts of elective autocracy to gain complete control over the organization of nowadays society. I

have tried, during my speech as in my book, to raise the alarm, and I will briefly analyze the actual

state or, to be more precise, the conditions under which the political power is exerted in the states

whose constitutions sustain the principles of parliamentary democracy.

The first thing that is worth mentioning is that, to tell the truth, we must admit that Democracy is one

of the words that started to lose their initial meaning due to the over-use within the political language

and not only there, and thus we might say that many times has it become an empty word, almost

meaningless. It is enough to follow, within mass-media, one the one hand, the manner of

parliamentary activities and, on the other hand, to notice the important and frequent protests all around

the world, but more often in Europe and Latin America, by means of which one questions their

activity and that of the governments and where one can see special police forces, Molotov cocktails,

tear gas and all other repressive materials. To easily understand what is going on, I have analyzed the

concept of democracy by opposition to other three concepts of dichotomic political regimes:

1 P rofessor, PhD, Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration - Member - founder of th e National School of

Political and Administrative Sciences, Address: 6 Povernei Str., Bucharest, Romania, Corresponding author:

ialexandru05@yahoo.com.