[Citizen College Season 4] #6 History of Election and Political Philosophy

On October 30, 2020, the sixth lecture of Citizen College Season 4 < Citizen and Participation: How do citizens become owner of politics? > , co-hosted by the Seongbuk-gu Office and the Peace and Democracy Institute, was conducted using ZOOM. The sixth lecture was given by professor Hong-Kyu Park of the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Korea University.

The lecture titled “The History of Elections and Political Philosophy” looked at the overall history of elections from the beginning to the crisis of representative democracy, and looked at the second-best and best ideas on representative democracy. Second-best practice has called for the expansion of direct democracy, emphasizing the crisis of the elite-oriented representative system, considering representative democracy as an incomplete replacement for direct democracy. On the other hand, the best policy is to regard representative democracy as a superior political system suitable for modern times, emphasizing the equality and accountability of representative democracy and that the present crisis is not a crisis of representative democracy but an election-oriented representative, system and practice. Looking at the history of representative democracy and the two representative arguments, the lecturer emphasized the meaning of representative democracy.