A Theory of Militant Democracy: The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism
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How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party to America’s Democratic Party during Reconstruction.


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Language: English
File size: 858 KB
Publisher: Yale University Press
Print length: 221 pages
Publication date: January 7, 2014
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