CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES: EMANCIPATORY INTENTIONS AND PRACTICAL LIMITATIONS

Abstract

Within any democratic system there antinomian relationship between citizens and government, which is expressed in a greater or lesser extent, but it depends on the character and stability of a political regime. Moreover, dissatisfied citizens in contemporary states often expressed non-violent disobedience to the state government. Civil disobedience is one of the special forms of civil citizen participation in public affairs, which, as a rule, has a retroactive political character as it aspires to change the already adopted legislation. This type of civil protest activity has character and is motivated by the desire of citizens for social, economic and political changes. By its nature, civil disobedience has no institutional character because it represents and synthesizes the requirements of citizenship - are usually the unrealized promises of political and civil discontent manifest - resulting in civil-social sphere policies. However, practical application of this instrument policy of controversy often in modern countries because his motivation and consequences are not always compatible with the democratic rule, which can be in certain circumstances, be converted into some form of political violence. In other words, if the political elite openly or covertly manipulated by the interests of the public, then the requirements of civil disobedience, basically remote from libertanske policy. It is therefore important to investigate, detect and analytically reconstruct the circumstances in which the activity of civil disobedience may have normative purpose and emancipatoryattribution.