Andrew Parkin Claims that There Is a Tension Between the Liberal and Democratic Aspects of Liberal Democratic Political Systems

A successful academic explanation of Andrew Parkins claim that a tension exists between the two namesake components of liberal democracy cannot be successfully achieved without the introduction of a brief personal clarification of the definitions of liberalism, democracy and their historical product, liberal democracy. An analysis and discussion of these disparate ideologies and their component concepts will serve as sufficient evidence of a real and existing tension within liberal democracy.
The most basic and immediate summary of the ideology of liberalism is 'individual sovereignty'. …