Government and opposition - the binomial democratic governance

• Author: Alina Gabriela Marinescu
• Position: Faculty of Socio-Humanist Sciences University of Pitesti, Pitesti, Romania
• Pages: 82-86

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicaljournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 1 (2014), pp. 82-86

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GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION - THE BINOMIAL DEMOCRATIC

GOVERNANCE

A. G. Marinescu, C. Popescu

Alina Gabriela Marinescu

Faculty of Socio-Humanist Sciences

University of Piteşti, Piteşti, Romania

Correspondence: Alina Gabriela Marinescu, University of Piteşti, 71 Republicii Blvd, Piteşti,

110014

E-mail: alina.marinescu74@yahoo.com

Cornel Popescu

Faculty of Socio-Humanist Sciences

University of Piteşti, Piteşti, Romania

Correspondence: Cornel Popescu, University of Piteşti, 71 Republicii Blvd, Piteşti, 110014

E-mail: popescucornel85@yahoo.com

Abstract:

An essential aspect of the political relations is represented by the relation

between po wer andopposition, the power being in the meaning of this relationship the

legitimate capacity to impose its own will or to exert the authority, which reveals a relation

of domination. The two socio-political entities, government and opposition, acts by its specific

means and in a democratic system these ease the confrontation of ideas, solutions, open

competition between political forces generating the alternation in power, as a result ofthe

electorate's will and political orientation.

Generally, the power is assimilated to the force or capacity of constraint, which

suggests that, from a certain perspective, the imposition of the political will.

In the socio-political area, J.J. Rousseau in his "Social Contract" stated that the most

powerful is not strong enough to always be the "master", if he does not transform the force

into law and subjection into duty, so that the normative power shall emerge from a social

morality stated by the law. As the pair term of the "power", the opposition is the ensemble of

the political groups, parties or alliances, which, taken separately or as an ensemble, are

opposing the political regime in force or the actual government's policy.

Keywords: democracy, government, power, opposition, authority

Introduction

The purpose of this research is the investigation of the content and socio-political

dimensions of the relation power-opposition in order to establish a state of facts and to draft

proposals on effective the interactions.

The conceptual analysis of the relation between power and opposition is made through

its components, based on the complexity and diversity of the notions of "power" and

"opposition". Are being analyzed both the methodological approaches focused on the study of

the relations of power, as well as the main ideas in this area. A special attention is paid for the

investigation of the specificity of the relations between the political power and opposition in

the context of the democratic transformations, as well as in the context of the consolidated

democracies.

Both the policy and the politics can be defined only by the relations configured for the

achievement of their goals and purposes. The politics, according toD. Fisichella, can be built