Political science and the study of democracy in the West, reminds me more and more of what Marxism-Leninism studies used to be back in the communist era: a legal academic means of justifiably legalizing the political and social reality then. The ideology is different, but the goal and way of achieving it is the same. Instead of promoting some positive changes in the system, to make it “more democratic” or “transparent,” which in my view should be increased control of the public vis-à-vis the government and the policies which this government takes in the name of the public, what seems to be the case, is a simple but effective means of camouflaging the real politics, in some pseudo-rhetoric image of democracy, and celebration of its achievements.
Number of political scientists, directly link the economic welfare of the citizens to this system, which if nothing else, is done without a single proof: it taken for granted. This however is not the case, since there are enough examples of non-democratic states, which citizens enjoy even higher standard of living than those in the democratic world.
The question is: does anyone actually think of how to improve the existing democratic system, in order to bring it closer to what people claim it is, or it should be? So far, I only see endless articles of why should people and states adopt this system (or else), and not much about how should we change the system so, that democratically elected governments pay more attention to those who elected them, than merely see their democratic election as a justification to undertake policies, which in many cases are directly opposed by these same people who elected them!
