Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: Militant democracy and its critics, Anthoula Malkopoulou; 1. Individual militant democracy, Jan Werner Müller; 2. Democratic equality and militant democracy, Peter Stone; 3. Militant democracy defended, Alexander Kirshner; 4. Militant democracy versus populism, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser; 5. Three models of democratic self-defence, Anthoula Malkopoulou and Ludvig Norman; 6. Resolving the paradox of tolerance, Stefan Rummens; 7. Militant democracy and the study of political tolerance, Giovanni Capoccia; 8. The EU defending liberal democracy in a liberal democratic way, Tore Vincents Olsen; 9. Militant democracy and the detection problem, Bastiaan Rijpkema; 10. Militant constitutionalism, András Sajó; 11. Militant democracy as an inherent quality of a democratic state, Svetlana Tyulkina; References.