Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

Öz

One of the leading topics that has been
occupying political science for the last decade is the question whether
democracy is facing a crisis. It is seen that the replies do not go beyond
focusing mostly on institutions or on economic conditions. However, this paper
suggests that the reason behind the democracy crisis lies within the changes in
political attitudes and emergence of a global political alienation. Because these
are main reasons of the emergence of incongruence between political culture and
political structure, and they are therefore prominent reasons of the
instability that democracies are experiencing. On the other hand, relevant
studies claiming that democracy is in a crisis generally focus on non-western
countries, while this paper suggests that the democracy crisis is taking place
in the whole world, and that western democracies are facing the threat of
collapse.