{"id":38689,"date":"2010-01-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/la-democratie-et-ses-mythes-lurgence-dune-democrat\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T08:18:19","slug":"la-democratie-et-ses-mythes-lurgence-dune-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/la-democratie-et-ses-mythes-lurgence-dune-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy and its Myths. The Pressing Need for a Smart Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'>Democracy, which has until now proved to be the only political system with long-term viability, is, nonetheless, not a perfect regime or \u201cmiracle solution\u201d. With this in mind, Kimon Valaskakis highlights the weaknesses of the system for Futuribles readers and analyses the four myths associated with what he calls \u201cfalse democracy\u201d \u2014 the currently predominant, but superficial version of the democratic ideal.\nIn the author\u2019s view, an awareness of these four myths \u2014 the infallibility of the people; the supremacy of direct over representative democracy; the peace-loving nature of democratic countries; and the correlation between national and global democracy \u2014 will enable nations and global organizations to be free of them and move towards a \u201csmart, sustainable democracy\u201d, which he presents here in broad outline.\nValaskakis insists that such a development has become essential since the beginning of the economic crisis, in order to confront \u2018the growing complexity of global challenges\u2019 and avoid backsliding toward more totalitarian regimes.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy, which has until now proved to be the only political system with long-term viability, is, nonetheless, not a perfect regime or \u201cmiracle solution\u201d. With this in mind, Kimon Valaskakis highlights the weaknesses of the system for Futuribles readers and analyses the four myths associated with what he calls \u201cfalse democracy\u201d \u2014 the currently predominant, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/la-democratie-et-ses-mythes-lurgence-dune-democrat\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1324],"tags":[212],"keyword":[978,996,886],"class_list":["post-38689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-revue-futuribles","tag-societe-en","keyword-citoyennete-en","keyword-democratie-en","keyword-etat-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60352,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38689\/revisions\/60352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38689"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=38689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}