Koncepcje responsywności jako odpowiedź na postulaty „uwrażliwienia” demokracji przedstawicielskiej
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2011
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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The concepts of responsiveness as a reaction to the postulates to make representative democracy more ‘sensitive’
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The author discusses two concepts of responsiveness in his paper: the concept of active society,
developed by Amitai Etzioni, and the concept of responsive public administration by
Mateusz Stêpieñ. The author finds both concepts potentially inspiring in the context of theoretical
proposals to overcome some dysfunctions of representative democracy. The author of
the paper also proposes to include the concepts of responsiveness in the framework of the
so-called transformation trend of theories of democracy, which perceives politics as the transformation
of individual preferences through rational discussion. The author observes a certain
convergence between the concepts of responsiveness and the main assumptions of deliberative
democracy (falling into the above transformation paradigm). Both concepts attempt at
finding a ‘golden mean’ between liberal and republican visions of state community, while significantly
‘supplementing’ liberal democracy concepts, especially those where politics is reduced
to a process of an auction of interests.
Etzioni’s concept is more philosophically oriented and can serve as a theoretical foundation
for more general considerations on the functioning of a democratic system and the relations
between authorities and citizens. A more practically oriented concept of responsive
administration can inspire the analyses of a desired model of self-government administration,
whose role in the context of relations with the citizens of local communities is sometimes
equal to that of local authorities.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2011, nr 3, s. 87-97.