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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.
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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 Historical references 9.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.

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Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism: Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two regional subtypes of populism: exclusionary populism and inclusionary populism, and compare four prototypical cases (FN/Le Pen and FPO/Haider in Europe and PSUV/Chavez and MAS/Morales in Latin America).
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Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style

TL;DR: The authors put forward an inductive model of populism as a political style and contextualised it within the increasingly stylised and mediatised milieu of contemporary politics by focusing on its performative features.
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Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

TL;DR: The authors argued that the silent revolution in values triggered a backlash fuelling support for authoritarian-populist parties and leaders in the US and Europe, and highlighted the dangers of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to liberal democracy.
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Authoritarian Deliberation: The Deliberative Turn in Chinese Political Development

TL;DR: The concept of authoritarian deliberation frames two possible trajectories of political development in China: the increasing use of deliberative practices stabilizes and strengthens authoritarian rule, or deliberative practice serves as a leading edge of democratization.
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The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations

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Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature of political scandals and the consequences of such scandals, and present a list of illustrative examples of political and financial scandals in the political field.