Postmodernity and Redefining of the Pluralist Democracy;From Polyarchy to Radical Democracy

Although there had been consensus on defining the democracy as "the people govern themselves", but objective implication of such vision have seen controversial. Nowadays, this conflict is refer to two principal approach: 1)The "explainatory/methodological" approach that defines democracy as an institutional mechanism for turn-in politics by people's Vote. 2) The "normative/ontological" approach that considers democracy as a kind of form of life, which is based on liberty and equality, that is due to expanding the scope of democratic inclusiveness onto all strata. In this essay compares the "polyarchy", as a modern pluralist democracy (the case for first approach) with the "radical democracy", as a postmodern pluralist democracy (a case for second approach);Supposing that Laclau & Mouffe's radical democratic project might be interpreted as the revival of the original ideals of democracy, based on the postmodern turn and shift in political analysis base, by going beyond from restricted / behavioral tradition of classic pluralism in the vision of thinkers like Robert Dahl.