Brno, Czech Republic

Conflict and Democracy Studies

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Years of study: 2
University website: www.muni.cz/
Conflict
Conflict most commonly refers to:
Democracy
Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία dēmokratía, literally "rule of the people"), in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as "rule of the majority". Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes.
Democracy
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949).
Democracy
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
Friedrich Engels, Introduction to 1891 edition of Karl Marx's, The Civil War in France
Democracy
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (1960), p. 94
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