Question

Why movement become important in modern democracy?

Answer 1

Social movements are argued to be influential in promoting democracy from below through mobilizing broader sectors of the society and creating a new set of social relationships that lead to the emergence of collective actions, identity and plurality. This line of thought is associated with the Greek democratic theory that recognizes the importance of the democracy of active participation where different interest groups can immediately be engaged in the transformation of political structures and institutions in which they live and work or the ones that govern them (Todd and Taylor, 2004: 9).