Inefficiencies of institutionalized party democracies in representing and responding to political interests and preferences of the public have led to the point that today many people, even in Western democracies, do not assume governments – even those governments based on democratic elections – to be their real representatives. Thus, currently we see many people lose their interest in traditional practices of political action, and also we observe the re-invention of more different and independent practices and political struggle centered on their presence in the “street”, such that sometimes street as a geographic space has replaced party bureaucratic offices. Therefore, the main question of the present study is how the public`s resort to “street” as a democratic political project can heal the inefficiencies of party democracies and political representation? The hypothesis of the present study is that street with features such as readability, visibility, protest ability, testability (a new political space), and formation of movement parties has the ability to become Agora; also it has the necessary talent and potential to form some type of democracy in the form of street democracy for solving such inefficiencies.
jamali, J., heidari, M. & khodadi, H. (2026). Street and radical democracy: Healing the shortcomings of party and representative democracies. (e254238). Journal of Political Strategy, (), e254238
MLA
jamali, J., heidari, M., & khodadi, H. "Street and radical democracy: Healing the shortcomings of party and representative democracies" .e254238 , Journal of Political Strategy, , 2026, e254238.
HARVARD
jamali J., heidari M., khodadi H. (2026). 'Street and radical democracy: Healing the shortcomings of party and representative democracies', Journal of Political Strategy, (), e254238.
CHICAGO
J. jamali, M. heidari & H. khodadi, "Street and radical democracy: Healing the shortcomings of party and representative democracies," Journal of Political Strategy, (2026): e254238,
VANCOUVER
jamali J., heidari M., khodadi H. Street and radical democracy: Healing the shortcomings of party and representative democracies. Journal of Political Strategy. 2026;():e254238 (In Persian).