Sovereign Democracy - Proponents of "Sovereign Democracy"

Proponents of "Sovereign Democracy"

In August 2006 a round table was held by the heads of the most influential political powers of the Russian Federation in order to discuss the concept of sovereign democracy. According to the Newspaper Izvestia the participants were able to agree upon the fact that all of them want to live in an independent and democratic country.

In October 2006 the head institute of international welfare of the Russian Academy of Sciences published an anthology of "The Conception and Identifying of Democracy". It used Fareed Zakaria's idea of the existence of a non-liberal democracy. The authors prove that throughout the history of western civilization, several democratic systems such as Aristocratic, Oligarchic, Egalitarian and National democracies replaced one another. Even more specific are the Chinese's ways of determining democracy. The democratic systems of the various countries of the European Union also vary greatly, for example the French system is based primarily on the model of a strong national government.

Special interest is placed upon the theory of "Aristocratic Democracy" developed by the Italian historian de Ruggero. According to this theory, during the Middle Ages peasants had all of the rights of citizens and even maintained the right to elect monarchs. In western Europe there existed real aristocratic parliaments which were picked only by birth right. The vast majority of the population was looked upon as "unworthy" of receiving full citizen's rights. In this manner liberal democracy is only a try at adapting the norms of aristocratic democracy to the needs of the political system of today.

The current liberal democracy is one of the many variations of a democratic system. This kind of approach serves to advocate a scientific basis for the theory of Sovereign democracy.

In November 2007 a book entitled "Sovereign democracy in a Constitutionally-right-wing Dimension" was published by "Russian Newspaper". It presented itself as a compilation of the articles and materials of the leading jurists of the Russian Federation including Valery Zorkin and holds a constitutional basis for said concept.