HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL DEMOCRACY

Author: ANDREY PANTEV
Sofia, 1997, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation

This is a book about the democracy before democracy. This repetition of words expresses a basic meaning specification. Its meaning reminds that the real modern democracy has a strikingly short history. Democracy is often identified with that peculiar liberal system of government and political life which is a preparatory stage for democracy, but is no democracy itself. Having this in mind, the book is looking for the intermediate place of contemporary democracy through typological comparisons which indicate that in a specific historical meaning, modern democracy is still on its halfway.