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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   THE DEMOCRATIC MOTIVATION. MODERN SECULAR STATE AND ITS CHALLENGES THROUGH DEMOCRACY IN THE VIEW OF ERNST WOLFGANG BÖCKENFÖRDE.

Authors:  CRISTINA BOJAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The concept of democracy has a long history and the debate on it is a challenging one. The present paper explores the view of Ernst Wolfgang Böckenförde, German jurist and philosopher, on the modern secular state and its challenges through democracy. Starting with the analysis of the representative democracy and of the roots of political culture in the evolution of state, he draws the conclusion that the free, secular state nourishes itself from some assumptions that cannot be guaranteed. Böckenförde offers a potential solution to this problem.

Keywords: secular state, democracy, political culture, Ernst Wolfgang Böckenförde
  
         
     
         
         
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