Democracy should be a universal value.
Concept of democracy.
Democracy is a form of social organization attributes the ownership of power to all citizens. Strictly speaking, democracy is a form of state organization in which collective decisions are taken by the people through direct or indirect mechanisms of participation that giving legitimacy to their representatives. In a broad sense, democracy is a form of social coexistence in which members are free and equal and social relations are established according to contractual arrangements.
Democracy can be defined from the classic classification of the forms of government realized by Plato first and Aristotle later, in three basic types: monarchy (rule by one), aristocracy (government "the best" for Plato, "the least" to Aristotle), Democracy (government "the crowd" to Plato and "the more" to Aristotle).
There is indirect or representative democracy when the decision is adopted by persons recognized by the people as their representatives. There participatory democracy as a political model that provides citizens the ability to associate and organize so that they can directly influence public decisions or when citizenship is facilitated broad consultative plebiscitary mechanisms applies.
Finally, there is direct democracy when the decision is adopted directly by the members of the people, through binding plebiscites, primaries, facilitating the legislative initiative and popular vote laws, a concept that includes the liquid democracy. These three forms are not mutually exclusive and are integrated as complementary mechanisms in some political systems, but always seems to have a greater weight of one of the three ways in a particular political system.
Not to be confused with Democratic Republic, since they relate to different principles, the republic is the rule of law while democracy means government by the people.

The term comes from ancient Greek democracy (δημοκρατία) and was coined in Athens in the V century. C. from the δῆμος words (DEMOS, which translates as "people") and κράτος (kratos, which can be translated as "power" or "government"). However, the etymological meaning of the term is much more complex. The term "demos" seems to have been a neologism derived from the fusion of the words demiurges (Demiurgi) and geomoros (geomori). The historian Plutarch noted that the geomoros and demiurges were next to the Eupatrids, the three classes in which Teseo divided to the free population of Attica (additionally the population was also composed metics, slaves and women). The Eupatrids were the nobles; demiurges were artisans; and geomoros were peasants. The latter two groups, "in increasing opposition to the nobility, formed the demos." Textually then, "democracy" means "government of artisans and peasants", expressly excluding the same slaves and nobles.
Some thinkers consider Athenian democracy as the first example of a democratic system. Other thinkers have criticized this conclusion, arguing on the one hand that both the tribal organization as in ancient civilizations around the world there are examples of democratic political systems, and on the other hand only a small minority of 10% of the population had the right to participate in the call Athenian democracy, being automatically excluded the majority of workers, peasants, slaves and women.
However, the meaning of the term has changed several times over time, and the modern definition has evolved greatly, especially since the late eighteenth century with the successive introduction of democratic systems in many countries and especially from recognition universal and the female vote in the twentieth century suffrage. Today, existing democracies are quite different Athenian system of government that inherited its name.
Classically democracy has been divided into two main forms: direct or representative.
indirect or representative democracy.
The village is limited to elect their representatives so that these deliberate and make decisions with the power that the people granted them by voting.
semi direct or participatory democracy.
Some authors also distinguish one third intermediate category, the semi direct democracy, which often accompanies, atenuándola, indirect democracy. In the semi direct democracy the people is expressed directly in certain particular circumstances, basically through four mechanisms:
• Referendum. The people choose 'yes or no' on a proposal.
• Plebiscito. The people granted or not granted final approval of a norm (constitution, law, treaty).
• Popular initiative. By this mechanism a group of citizens can propose the sanction or repeal of a law.
• Removal popular, mandate revocation or recall. By this procedure the citizens can dismiss an elected representative before his term ended.

direct democracy.
A Landsgemeinde (in 2009) of the canton of Glarus, an example of direct democracy in Switzerland.
This is democracy in its purest form, as the Athenians lived their founders, practiced in Switzerland. Decisions are made by the sovereign people in assembly. There are representatives of the people but, in any event, delegates spokesmen people do, they only emit asambleario mandate. This is the kind of democracy preferred not only by Democrats of Ancient Greece, but also for many modern thinkers (Rousseau, for example) and for a good part of Socialism and Anarchism. An example of direct democracy best known is that of classical Athens.
liquid democracy.
Liquid Democracy is a kind of direct democracy in which every citizen has the opportunity to vote online every decision of Parliament and make proposals, but may give their vote to a representative for those decisions that prefer not to participate.
In modern democracy plays a decisive role in the so-called majority rule, ie the right of the majority to its position adopted when there are several proposals. This has led to is a commonplace of popular culture assimilate democracy with majority decision. Elections are the instrument in which the majority rule applies; thus making democracy more efficient, effective and transparent exercise, where equal opportunity and justice is applied, practice originated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; when the woman becomes part of the right to vote. Moreover, contemporary democracy is not maintained parallel to the absolutist regime and the monopoly of power.
However many democratic systems do not use the majority rule or restrict choice by rotating systems, random, right to veto (special majorities), etc.8 In fact, in certain circumstances, the rule of the majority can become undemocratic when it affects fundamental rights of minorities or individuals.
The real democracies are often complex mechanisms articulated with multiple rules of participation in the processes of deliberation, decision-making, in which power is divided constitutionally or statutorily, in multiple functions and territorial areas, and a variety of control systems are established , balances and limitations, leading to the formation of different types of majorities, to the preservation of core areas for minorities and guarantee the human rights of individuals and social groups.
Liberal democracy.
In many cases the word "democracy" is used as a synonym for liberal democracy. Usually understood by liberal democracy a generic type emerged from the Independence of the United States of 1776 and state then more or less widespread in the republics and constitutional monarchies that emerged from the emancipation or revolutionaries against the great absolute monarchies and established systems of government where people can vote and be voted, while property rights is preserved.
Thus, although strictly the term "democracy" only refers to a system of government in which the people holding the sovereignty, the concept of "liberal democracy" is a system with the following characteristics:
• A constitution that limits the diverse powers and controls the formal operation of the government, and is thus the rule of law.
• Division of powers.
• The right to vote and be voted for in the elections for a large majority of the population (universal suffrage).
• Protection of property rights and the existence of important disempowered groups in economic activity. It has been argued that this is the essential characteristic of democracy liberal.5
• Existence of several political parties (not one-party).
• Freedom of expression.
• Freedom of the press and access to alternative sources of information to their own government to guarantee the right to information of citizens.
• Freedom of association.
• Effective human rights, including an institutional framework for minority protection.
From this, some scholars have suggested the following definition of liberal democracy: majority rule with minority rights.

Under the international events can visualize that between East and West there have been disagreements on all cultural and religious puts us to think that democracy though battered and poor, capitalist and sometimes unfair copper a value larger every day. But what happens in Arab countries that has motivated them to take the path of rebellion to overthrow authoritarian regimes with long-standing power? Culturally the Middle East has a training or indoctrination "Divine" that removes and governments in the West is not the case because globalization has been the thread that internalizes democratic and freedom principles, contrasting with the formation and political ideology although precarious of these citizens with a messianic and fierce political formation. In the West, governments most Democrats has been instilling democratic values ​​of freedom, respect, cessation of armed violence except for some countries, but in spite put into practice the right to vote that makes it very attractive for those who do not practice besides being a possibility of going shifting the culture of "human sacrifice", wars among others, is not that happen in democracy but the right to life is a novelty that allows them to enjoy their loved ones and countless losses She has deteriorated collective emotion putting on tenterhooks indoctrination of war and death.
So things insurgencies embrace these principles even though they viewed with some contempt and shyness to start something new as to achieve a better standard of living and have less pain and violence in Libya the situation is no different just a matter of time cultural traditions go moving towards universal principles where each nation will put its "special touch" without ceasing to be a democracy, will lack time for these cultures to engage this emerging economic político_ pace, Libya has been carried by the current "domino effect", just to see how things develop with the imminent capture of Gaddafi and the governing board that will be responsible for giving a whole new twist to the nation that both outrages and oppression suffered. .. Why the statement ... Democracy is a universal value. Article by: Adriana Alcala. Political scientist graduated from the Universidad de los Andes. Merida. Venezuela. In 2013 in connection with the "Arab Spring"
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1. DEMOCRACY. (2016) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracia.