B. Barber on the Negative Aspects of Liberal Democracy
The article contains an analysis of the ideas of an American scientist B. Barber on the nature and shortcomings of liberal democracy. There is a study of the characteristics of the three dimensions of liberal democracy – anarchic, realistic and minimalist, each with individual attitudes and evaluation of social conflict. The author proved the failure of liberal democracy to satisfy the public interest and to realize the common good, resulting in proposed appeal to the participatory democracy that could, according to political scientist, to overcome the negative aspects of liberal culture in democratic governance.