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Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust
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In this article, the authors present an overview of the modern mixed regime with respect to the sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization, and the preference for judgement.Abstract:
Preface Introduction Part I. Overseeing Democracy: 1. Vigilance, denunciation, evaluation 2. The overseers 3. The thread of history 4. Legitimacy conflicts Part II. The Sovereignty of Prevention: 5. From the right of resistance to complex sovereignty 6. Self-critical democracies 7. Negative politics Part III. The People as Judge: 8. Historical references 9. Almost legislators 10. The preference for judgement Part IV. Unpolitical Democracy: 11. The sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization 12. The populist temptation 13. Lessons of unpolitical economy 14. Conclusion: the modern mixed regime.read more
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Fear: The History of a Political Idea
TL;DR: Corey Robin this paper argues that fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial, from the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago to today's headlines, and traces our growing fascination with political danger and disaster.
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Militant Democracy and Fundamental Rights, II*
TL;DR: Fascism is no longer an isolated incident in the individual history of a few countries as mentioned in this paper, but a universal movement which in its seemingly irresistible surge is comparable to the rising of European liberalism against absolutism after the French Revolution.
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The eighteenth-century commonwealthman : studies in the transmission, development, and circumstance of English liberal thought from the restoration of Charles II until the war with the thirteen colonies
TL;DR: The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthmen as mentioned in this paper advocated the principles of liberty in an era when change was considered perilous, and their essays, arguments, pamphlets, and histories were hugely popular in America.