DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF THE INSTITUTE OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Abstract

This paper clarifies the issue of representative democracy, its historical roots and development in the world. Representative democracy, despite the variety of assessments regarding its current state and prospects, including very critical assessments associated, in particular, with technologically proven models of party systems and voting (election) systems, decorative parliamentarism and other manifestations of defects and dysfunctions of modern institutions of state democracy.