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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 154, 2023
2022 International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development (PESD 2022)
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| Article Number | 01020 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | 1. Public Service Management and Development Mechanism | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202315401020 | |
| Published online | 11 January 2023 | |
Is the Right to Vote Equal to Democracy? — An Analysis of Substantive and Procedural Democracy in the United States
1 School of Economics, Beijing International Studies University, Nanli Community, Dingfu Town, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC
2 School of International Relations, Beijing International Studies University, Nanli Community, Dingfu Town, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC
* Corresponding author: hongtao021022@163.com
In modern political society, democracy remains a universal concept. However, different ideologies still have their own views on the concrete realization form of democracy. Nowadays, the understandings of the concept of democracy in the United States and its democratic values have become the mainstream of Western society, and their historical value and role should not be ignored. However, the practice of this democratic system has differed from true democracy and has gradually manifested political confusion.
Firstly, this paper introduces the development of democracy and electoral system, and explains that the initial meaning of Western democracy is institutional democracy, namely procedural democracy, which is not the same as what we think of popular sovereignty today, and that the development course of Western democracy is also the expansion process of procedural justice. Then, constructivism theory is used to discuss the proceduralized process of substantive democracy and to explain the relationship between procedural justice and substantive democracy. Finally, through a specific analysis of the evolution and practice of the democratic electoral system in the United States, it concludes that the development of American democracy focuses only on expanding the scope of procedural democracy, but neglects the development of substantive democracy. For this reason, it explores the problems existing in American democracy.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2023
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