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Recent years have seen near constant reports on the failures of govern-ance and the crisis of democracy. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) from 2008 onwards saw many of the world’s strongest economies and most robust democracies teeter on the edge of collapse. This crisis led to
Jun 27, 2024 · Summary. A concept of crises is developed to serve as the framework for subsequent analysis. Economic inequality and the quest for political power are identified as recurrent threats to democracy.
Abstract: This essay sets out a new theoretical model for understanding why citizens might turn away from democracy. We argue that democracy is best understood as a mode of sociality, a dynamic matrix of relations in which ethically imaginative human subjects are embedded.
The main objective of this research was to discover why and how democracy was going through such a legitimacy crisis. This thesis is an inquiry into the relation between crisis and democracy based on the case-study of austerity-ridden Portugal between 2011 and 2015.
Dec 1, 2021 · In this paper, I offer a heuristic overview of some of the dominant ways in which theorists have talked about the crisis of democracy. This isn’t a literature review, so much as a conceptual essay that will help us think about the key coordinates underpinning the ever-proliferating literature on democratic crisis.
Introduction. In recent years, the diagnosis on the crisis of democracy has received renewed attention in both scholarly literature and popular commentary.
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This article addresses the question of whether the crisis of democracy is an invention of theoretically complex but empirically ignorant theorists who adhere to an excessively normative ideal of democracy, on three levels:
