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Jun 26, 2015 · Jason Brickhill and Yana van Leeve 'Transformative Constitutionalism - Guiding Light or Empty Slogan' (2015) Acta Juridica 141-171. || We engage afresh with the notion of transformative...
- 1 Authoritarian Populism in Power, Governance, and Democracy
- 2 Democratic Populism in Power, Governance, and Democracy
- 3 Clientelism in Power, Governance, and Democracy
- 4 Deliberative Power, Governance, and Democracy
- 5 Radical/Agonistic Democracy, Power and Governance
- 6 Totalitarian Populism in Power, Governance, and Democracy
Why instead of “totalitarianism” we start with “authoritarian populism” a term used by Stuart Hall for conceptualizing Thatcherist political discourse in Britain that despite seeming resemblances to “classical fascism, has retained most (though not all) of the formal representative institution in place, and which at the same time has been able to c...
First of all: why not “liberal populism,” a term that is widely used in political literature? In fact, the latter is the primary reason: what this label is usually associated with are some ideological contents, mostly neoliberalism (from Friedman to Thatcher) or the populism associated with the Liberal Party in the USA by its opponents. We, as alre...
Clientelism, “an exchange of votes for political favours” (Laclau 2005, p. 122), “is not necessarily populistic; it can adopt purely institutional forms” (ibid., p. 123). Drawing on vast amount of literature on “clientelism” Hallin and Papathanassopoulos discern the phenomenon as follows: “Clientelism refers to a pattern of social organization in w...
All in all Jürgen Habermas’ theory of “communicative action” seems to be the most important source for this ideal model of democratic communication, despite the fact that his own opus magnum oriented explicitly on the issues of democracy (1996a [1992]) came out several years after the term started to gain wide acceptance as referring to distinct mo...
“What is right, or even what a right is, cannot in itself determine political judgment. Rights themselves… are both constantly being redefined and reinterpreted and dependent for their normative force on the engagement and commitment of an active citizen body,” writes Benjamin Barber (1996, p. 354), one of the most influential proponents of “strong...
Let us return to Sartori: “The crucial difference between totalitarianism and authoritarianism is not in what they actually do… but in their respective potentialities” (1987, p. 201). Pointing out that in case of governmental form it is more useful to “transform totalitarianism as an object concept… into ‘totalitarian’ as a predicate,” he offers th...
- Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
- 2020
This book takes the broadest view, adopting the guidance of political scientist Harold Lasswell, who defined politics as “who gets what, when, how.” 6 Politics exists wherever people interact with one another to make decisions that affect them collectively. Politics exists within families.
When you think like a political scientist, you seek evidence and carefully scrutinize that evidence—in politics as well as in other areas of your life. Doing so helps to inoculate you from misinformation and manipulation.
• Politics : the way in which political aims and desires contribute to policy making. The new Policy Skills Framework presents successful policy as the combination of politics, evidence, and delivery.
- Michael Hallsworth
- 2011
This book should be an essential part of any public policy course. Written by two leading experts in the field, it covers the big questions of policy making from agenda setting and success, to the moral dimensions of doing policy. Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck College
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May 1, 2014 · It showcases both the normative and empirical traditions in political leadership studies, and juxtaposes behavioural, institutional, and interpretive approaches. It covers formal, office-based as well as informal, emergent political leadership, and in both democratic and undemocratic polities.
