A Theory of Militant Democracy

Alexander S. Kirshner

• 07 januari 2014
• 9780300189858

Samenvatting:

How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey"s Islamist Welfare Party to America"s Democratic Party during Reconstruction.