ABSTRACT

The attribute perfect to qualify a democracy is justified if this form of a society allows free exchange of information among its constituent parts, i.e., if there is no danger of being persecuted if attitudes differ from the dominant or of any doctrine of the community. The presented mathematical model illustrates some developments and its results when such free exchange exists. The main point of interest is the growing number of constituents, which form a democratic system. It is distinguished between bilateral and multilateral information exchange within the social partners. The essay demonstrates how the volition of the constituents, with which they strive toward their goals, has to shrink, and how the speed of their action decreases, if a stable democracy grows cancerously in the number of constituent elements and of information exchange among them. The democracy grows toward self-destruction.