A Comparative Study of the Crisis of Democracy and Its Impact on Citizen's political Behavior of Trilateral Democracies Europe, United States and Japan

Following the occurrence of scientific, industrial and Political Revolutions in Europe between 17/19 Centuries the theoretical Foundation of hereditary rule of political regimes was weakened and states legitimacy was established in the bases of popular will for thefirst time, this idea well-wrought Propound by modernity thinkers Specially by "Contractualists" and later Max Weber would conceptualize the notion as contradiction between traditional and legal rule. This democratic concept developed in past two centuries and with surrender the Non- democratic regimes such as Nazism andFascism ones in the Midst of twentieth century and eventually collapse of the soviet regime at the end of that century it seems that democracy achieved at the peak of its success. But Now, the idea and its resulting political system is confronted by substantial troubles and challenges, so that in the recent decades the famous western politicalthinkers like Hantington, Habermas, Putnam, Dalton, Norrise and so on declared their worry about this situation with special terms as the crisis of legitimacy, Deficit of confidence, Political Stagnation and more importantly the "crisis of Democracy". In this article we have from a comparative Perspective tried to investigate this crisis and itseffects on citizen's political behavior of these trilateral democracies and also it’s global impact on other countries.