Open AccessCAN ELECTIONS ENSURE REPRESENTATIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT? THEORETICAL MODELING
Author(s) -
O.S. Konko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
russkaâ politologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2541-965X
DOI - 10.51180/rps.2020.15.2.010
Subject(s) - accountability , representation (politics) , democracy , government (linguistics) , ideal (ethics) , order (exchange) , work (physics) , political science , public administration , public relations , computer science , law and economics , sociology , economics , engineering , law , finance , politics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
The article consists of discourse if elections can be the only part of ensuring of democratic order. The author is analyzing the concepts of electoral representation and electoral accountability and comparing their ideal and real embodiments. The main part of the work is theoretic model with which the author is trying to predict the behavior of an incumbent and to make some crucial notes about abilities of elections to ensure representation and accountability. The crucial conclusion is that elections cannot be the only tool to keep the government representative and accountable and should be supplemented by other democratic instruments. Although the evidences are theoretical, the conclusions can be applied practically.