Aspects of modern democracy include the pursuit of self-governance, majority rule and vivid public spheres open to political debate for the citizens to formulate interests and demands. However, contemporary established liberal representative democracies come with a set of paradoxes. Apart from an increasing introduction of undemocratic means to ensure state-security and power or the rather autocratic forms of public administration, the exercise of power still lies in the hands of small elites (Gabriels, 2012). Moreover, the system itself implies problematic features for the pursuit of democracy as the constitution of the rule by the people, or self-governance. Liberalism, as the philosophy behind twentieth-century nation-states, is acknowledged to grant political equality on the one hand, but also to bring about economic and societal inequality on the other hand (Phillips, 2006). Furthermore, a representative democracy goes hand in hand with the exclusion of those not represented, as the idea is that the people is the sovereign that confers legislative and executive powers to representative bodies (Held, 2006).