The citizens' assembly, the 500-member parliament and the people's court fully embody the characteristics of democratic politics.
The citizens' assembly is the highest authority, which is responsible for deliberating and deciding all state affairs. All legal citizens have the right to participate, know, speak, vote and be elected. The most important procedure of the citizens' assembly is to debate the bill. Eloquent speech depends on rich knowledge, and fierce debate promotes the development of advocating and explaining knowledge.
The failure of the political system in ancient Greece and Athens
Democracy gives ordinary people the right to choose, and it also depends on the participation of the people to operate effectively. However, the failure experience left by the Athens city-state in ancient Greece reveals that the direct democracy model is not desirable. Even today, if everyone participates in national decision-making, they are still doomed to failure.
Therefore, most countries now adopt the representative system, and voters vote for their own interest representatives, so that they can make rational choices for themselves in the parliament that are in line with the interests of the wider public. But this model is also facing unprecedented challenges.
The Internet allows everyone to express their views and opinions, thus influencing the decision-making of parliamentary representatives. Everyone has the ability to choose the simple question of what color to paint the house, but not everyone has the ability to choose the complex question of national political and economic development.
What choice you make depends on what information you receive. In addition to the ability to distinguish authenticity, the one-sidedness of receiving information also makes it impossible to make rational and objective choices. As far as young people are concerned, they prefer to get information from social networks rather than traditional media, which makes them unable to fully grasp the information.
In the face of choice, subjective emotions rather than objective and rational thinking become the dominant factor.
This reflects the failure of this political system. Many complicated issues that should have been decided within the parliament have to be decided in the form of a referendum, so that the referendum has been blowing in Europe in recent years. These problems often involve a lot of professional knowledge. Although voters can "make the final decision" by voting, it is difficult to guarantee that the final choice is correct.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Democracy in Athens
People's Network-The Failure of Western-style Political System