Militant Democracy and Its Critics: Populism, Parties, Extremism
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Social Sciences



Dimensions: 6.14 x 0.56 x 9.21 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1474445616
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print length: 296 pages
Publication date: February 16, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1474445610
Edition: 1st
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: Anthoula Malkopoulou Alexander Kirshner
review: Editorial Reviews Review This is a timely book, as fascist and anti-democratic parties are on the rise in many democratic countries. The authors of the essays in this excellent collection devise some powerful arguments that shake our beliefs and challenge our convictions regarding the potential for a constructive politics springing from participation. , Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University From the Inside Flap Should representative governments restrict the democratic rights of their extremist opponents?Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail rights of participation be consistent with democratic values? In this collection of essays, scholars from across politics, philosophy and law address the unresolved practical and theoretical questions concerning democracy and extremism. The collection provides an update to a key contemporary debate in democratic theory and asks us to reconsider the potential promise and costs of militant democracy.Anthoula Malkopoulou is Docent and Lecturer in the Department of Government at Uppsala University.Alexander Kirshner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. From the Back Cover Should representative governments restrict the democratic rights of their extremist opponents? Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail rights of participation be consistent with democratic values? In this collection of essays, scholars from across politics, philosophy and law address the unresolved practical and theoretical questions concerning democracy and extremism. The collection provides an update to a key contemporary debate in democratic theory and asks us to reconsider the potential promise and costs of militant democracy. Anthoula Malkopoulou is Docent and Lecturer in the Department of Government at Uppsala University. Alexander Kirshner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. About the Author Anthoula Malkopoulou is Docent and Lecturer at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. She has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the same department and a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Arts Program ‘Engaging Vulnerability’. She has also held research positions at Princeton University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and the University of Jyväskylä. Malkopoulou is the author of The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe (Routledge, 2015) and co-editor of Equality and Representation (Routledge: 2018). Alexander Kirshner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, 2015–16. His is the author of A Theory of Militant Democracy (Yale University Press 2014) and co-editor of Political Representation (Cambridge University Press 2010). Read more