Political-communicative crisis of democracy and ways of its overcoming

The article analyzes the problems of political communication that lead to a crisis of democracy. Thus, four political and communicative problems that served as the basis for this crisis are identified: the political and communicative alienation of state power from the public, the formation of a media democracy in the state, the violation of political and communicative conditions for the formation of rational choice of citizens, and the gradual transition to post-democracy. There are two alternatives to further development of democracy - the transition to authoritarian technocratic management of society or the implementation of the normative-genuine democracy. To implement the second alternative, it is necessary to fulfill the following political and communicative provisions: the application of the concepts of monitor and deliberative democracies in practice, the formation of the independent public sphere and the real public opinion and agenda that are interconnected with it, and not constructed by the state administration. These provisions are able to overcome the problems that lead to a crisis of democracy and to implement a truly democratic regime.