democracy - Vision the Italian Think Tank

We, in fact, also, think that the democracy’s performance is not an absolute concept,but it has to become relative, evaluated in reference to the expectations andpossibilities the change throughout time. The deluge of information that has been themost distinctive feature of the last ten years has “simply” produced an increase in theexpectations that the democratic “information systems” can not respond to.After all, this is the only intuition/ ideology that has oriented Vision analysis of thedifferent structural limits (four) of “elections” as an informative mechanism to collectcitizens’ preferences.This research has not proposed a new institutional architecture. That was not what weintended.We think that such a scope is not realistic. And we also believe that such an illogicalpromise was the real reason for the failure of most recent constitutional effort atnational, European and UN level.Democracy is a “learning process” as we have been saying many times during thisresearch.Its configuration has to be, therefore, in a continuous evolution and its “reforms” willalways be experiments.The name of the game of modernization is to make democracy able to reinvigorate(and save) its original values by continuously adapt itself to transformations whichmay kill them if not understood correctly.42