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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...
Transformative Constitutionalism - Guiding light or empty slogan? Jason Brickhill. 2015, Act Juridica. In this article, we engage afresh with the notion of 'transformative constitutionalism' as envisaged by Former South African Chief Justice, Pius Langa.
- Jason Brickhill, Yana van Leeve
- 2015
May 17, 2021 · Bond’s succinct summary of the relationship between violence and politics brings important insights from political science to bear on intersectionality’s guiding premise that intersecting systems of power are interdependent and that they mutually construct one another.
- Patricia Hill Collins
- 2019
- 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
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 updated third edition comes with significant revisions, which reflect the latest questions facing political theory, such as the French burqa controversy, ethnic
To answer that question this analysis examines the work of the political realist thinker Hans J. Morgenthau who transformed the study of international relations with his analysis of this question.
