of the 15M movement, catalysed that nation's crisis of bipolarism with its denunciation of the privilege and corruption in politics and finance ( Caruso 2014 Della Porta et al. 2017a ; Martin 2015 ; Torreblanca 2015 ). Finally, in France ex
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Francesco Maria Scanni and Francesco Compolongo
Christian Ewert
-speaking canton may have much in common with a French-speaking one. In this regard, a lingua franca is necessary but not sufficient. My questions and doubts regarding Lacey's account are mostly conceptual. First, I do not understand the centrifugal force
From Schmitt to Foucault
Inquiring the Relationship between Exception and Democracy
Sara Raimondi
that the French author combines with power. By discussing the dynamics internal to the exception as a dialectic between power and resistance, the article contends, it is possible to make room for collective decisional action under exception. This
In Democratic Theory
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Alexander Weiss
before and beyond its familiar lineage from Athens and Rome, the Magna Charta and up until the American and French Revolutions. CDT builds on the results of these historical re-descriptions and adds—based on the strong assumption that democratic praxis
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Simon Tormey and Jean-Paul Gagnon
—starting in the late seventeenth century—it’s clear that the real demand there was for greater representation. Look, for example, at what the Levellers (e.g., Foxley 2013 ) or French Revolutionaries (e.g., Hobsbawm 2001 ) demanded. It’s something that
In Democratic Theory
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Leif Lewin
political capacity among the newly enfranchised as a relevant objection to political equality. Writing in the shadow of the French Revolution and deeply shocked by its bloodbath, Mill warned of the consequences of popular power when it spun out of control
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Dominik Austrup, Marion Repetti, Andreas Avgousti, Th. W. Bottelier, and Antonin Lacelle-Webster
pluralist understanding of democracy, populism and liberal democracies are fundamentally incompatible (39). Galston proceeds by laying out a historical analysis of the rise of populist parties in Europe focusing on Hungary, Poland, and France (chap. 4
Samuel Moyn and Jean-Paul Gagnon
is, rather, a signal word with many synonyms that all point to a probably endless account of meanings. Any effort to pin democracy down to one meaning is a labour we're frankly warned against! 18 th century French revolutionaries, for instance
Neoliberalism, the Left and the Rise of the Far Right
On the Political and Ideological Implications of Capitalism's Subordination of Democracy
Costas Panayotakis
, which can be traced back to the momentous events of the French Revolution ( Carlisle 2019 ; Freeden 2003: 40 ). Though the meaning of the contrast between left and right is not static but has evolved over time ( Carlisle 2019 ), not least with the rise
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Christian Ewert and Marion Repetti
conceptualization. Languages such as English or French are the most obvious codes. They provide order and reduce arbitrariness when it comes to the noises that people make with their vocal chords (speech) and the lines and dots people make with ink on paper (writing
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