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Historical Perspectives on Democracies and Their Adversaries

Historical Perspectives on Democracies and Their Adversaries

Augusteijn, Joost
Hijzen, Constant
de Vries, Mark Leon

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Political History

General Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3030201228
ISBN13: 9783030201227
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 24 2019
Pages: 297
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic institutions from within. This compilation of essays provides the first historical exploration of how democracies have dealt with such anti-democratic forces in their midst and how this impacted upon what democracy meant to all involved. From its inception in the nineteenth century, modern democratic politics has included fundamental debates over whether it is undemocratic and dangerous to ban parties with anti-democratic objectives and whether democracies should defend themselves, if necessary with violence, against perceived anti-democratic forces. This volume shows that implicit conceptions of democracy and democratic repertoires become explicit, fluid, and contested throughout these confrontations, not only within democratic parties, but also among their adversaries. Both sides have, at times, used force or limited the expression of ideas, thus blurring the lines between who is democratic and who is not.

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