CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Sirocic, Zorica Iva |
|---|---|
| Title | Normative aspects of campaign regulation |
| Summary | The electoral campaign as one of the prominent elements of present-day democracies attracts attention from numerous sides. The interesting feature in accompanying debates is that while suggesting certain legal and policy solutions, participants justify their legal and policy proposals by calling upon more abstract democratic values. The relation between concrete regulatory policies and intuitively shared understandings of democracy is the topic of this thesis. Thus, the work endorses a normative approach based on political theory, which makes a valuable supplement to the existing literature on the topic coming from the field of comparative politics or legal studies. The approach consists of firstly assessing the theoretical consistency of three influential normative models nowadays: majoritarian, partnership and deliberative democracy. By focusing on the relation that each of these conceptions have towards free speech I derive more general conclusions on the value and the importance they attach to liberty and equality as constitutive principles of democracy. Further application on campaign regulations reveals inherent gaps that the particular normative model of democracy can have in its premises. Finally, it is concluded that principles derived from the conception of deliberative democracy show the greater theoretical consistency and empirical applicability over the two other normative models. For that reason, they are suitable to be taken into account when considering various policy regulations on such intense political periods as electoral campaigns |
| Supervisor | Miklosi, Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/sirocic_zorica.pdf |
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