Those who debate democracy should know what they are debating. Yet "populism" and "illiberalism" – ubiquitous in academia and the media – fail as analytical tools: empirically dubious, they dramatise legitimate positions and thereby downplay genuinely undemocratic ones. The book counters these concepts with a pragmatic definition of democracy grounded in international law – narrowly defined, but normatively rigorous. It draws clear red lines and exposes the hidden dissent over democracy's fundamental rules – even among committed democrats. Michael Meyer-Resende is the founder of Democracy Reporting International. For two decades he has analysed and advised democratic institutions around the world.
How do modern democracies falter? This book examines the transformation toward repressive regimes using an innovative, systemic-cybernetic approach. Rather than relying on monocausal explanations, the author develops a model of nine theoretical axioms—including economic, cultural, media, and psychological drivers—that...
This paper attempts to deploy - and adapt - the classical concept of charisma in the context of contemporary populism. The current wave of populisms of various kinds in Western representative democracies throws up challenges for political sociology in understanding how leaders seek to legitimize themselves; for ins...
Thomas Osborne· International Journal of Pol...· 0 citations
Disagreement about democracy's noninstrumental value often sees the opposition between two competing approaches.
Liberty‐based arguments
assign normative priority to a principle of liberty, thereby focusing on democratic self‐government as the core principle through which political authority can be reconciled wit...
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence amid democratic erosion, this article asks why 250 years of democratic development have not produced a multiracial democracy. It argues that the United States is a
herrenvolk
democracy—a regime in which democracy coexists with...
In Justice as Fairness John Rawls argues that only property-owning democracy and liberal socialism are fully compatible with the principles of justice. Nevertheless, his epistemic abstention regarding which of these regimes constitutes the more attractive alternative from a normative and institutional perspective has l...
Oscar Morales Bravo· Mutatis Mutandis: Revista In...· 0 citations
This paper argues that the standard rationale for regulating markets also applies to democracy. Economists and philosophers commonly defend government intervention in markets on the grounds that markets predictably suffer from failures such as public goods problems, information asymmetries, principal–agent dilemmas,...
Jason Brennan, Christopher Freiman· Economics and Philosophy· 0 citations
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