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This plain English guide focuses on political terms as part of our ongoing campaign on literacy and political participation. Literacy difficulties can be a barrier to accessing, understanding and using information. As a result, adults with literacy difficulties may be excluded from: voting in elections and referendums;
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...
Introduction to Political Theory relates political ideas to political realities through effective use of examples and case studies making theory lively, contentious and relevant.
This working paper consists of three sections. First, an overview of the classical fundaments of geopolitics is provided, and leading and misleading tracks are delineated. The second section deals with present-day geopolitics and how it advances the classical approach.
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- 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
The word democracy is one of the most used terms of the political vocabulary. This vital concept, through its transcultural dimension and because it touches the very fundamentals of the life of human beings in society, has given rise to
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More broadly speaking though, the national interest is about doing what is best for the country, i.e. preserving national sovereignty, building diplomatic relations with other states, increasing state prosperity, increasing safety and wellbeing and so on.
