Democracy as a political regime is linked up with citizen participation as well as rights. According to the well-known framework of R. Dahl for the analysis of the concept of democracy the participation aspect may be confronted with the rights aspect. Individual rights are strongly entrenched in the democratic state ideology, sanctioned by the many declarations of human rights. Just as democracy may be developed by collective rights, so citizenship may become more complex and minority orientated. It is true that a genuine democracy respects and cultivates natural differences. Democracy in this manner is an art of governing people in the principle of respecting human differences.
