The Crisis of Democratic Transition and its Repercussions on Contemporary Iraqi Society: An Analytical Study in Political Sociology

Abstract

Throughout history, Iraqi society has suffered from injustice, tyranny, and occupation. However, modern Iraq, since the establishment of the Iraqi state, has not experienced periods of prosperity except for a short period, which was preceded and followed by manifestations of poverty, ignorance, and the woes of wars, killing, and terrorism. During this time, the government's power and its unilateral decision-making were the deciding factors that brought crises upon it, driven by internal and external factors that ultimately led to the political decision being held hostage by international powers. After 2003, the Iraqi citizen began to look forward to new horizons that carried within them the meanings of freedom, justice, and inclinations towards achieving democracy. But in reality, he found himself under an administration that lacked decision-making, whose concern was to remain in power rather than provide services or reforms. It practiced marginalization, exclusion, and a lack of transparency, which burdened him and made him lose faith in the slogan of democracy, making it more of a curse than a blessing that exacerbates his reality and disturbs his peace. The research sought to answer the question of what democracy is, its standards, the reasons for its crisis, and the obstacles that stand in its way and led to its failure, in order to reach the results and facts that made democratic transition a crisis that is difficult to practice at the present time, as well as revealing the future vision of democracy in Iraqi society in light of regional and international changes and geopolitical transformations.