The right to democracy in a populist era
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The greatest paradox of the current populist wave is that democracy is being subverted by leaders promising more, not less, democracy, but it is a democracy of a different kind as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Thomas Franck's “emerging” right to democracy seems to be entering turbulent times, as the current global democratic recession has undermined the optimism of the 1990s. The greatest paradox of the current populist wave is that democracy is being subverted by leaders promising more, not less, democracy—but it is a democracy of a different kind. Populists embrace the “form” of democracy and claim to speak for the people themselves. At the same time, however, by undermining its liberal constitutional foundations, they erode the substance of democracy, and gradually transform it into various forms of illiberal and authoritarian regimes.read more
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Introduction to the Symposium on Thomas Franck, “Emerging Right to Democratic Governance” at 25
TL;DR: The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance as mentioned in this paper is a rare piece of scholarship that merits a retrospective twenty-five years later, but Thomas Franck's 1992 article affirmatively demands one.
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Toward an Instrumental Right to Democracy
TL;DR: The notion of an entitlement to democracy was introduced by the late Thomas Franck as mentioned in this paper, who argued that his view of democracy was too thin, and argued for an instrumental conception of democracy that ties it to other rights and entitlements.
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Introduction to the Symposium on Thomas Franck, “Emerging Right to Democratic Governance” at 25
TL;DR: The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance as mentioned in this paper is a rare piece of scholarship that merits a retrospective twenty-five years later, but Thomas Franck's 1992 article affirmatively demands one.
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Toward an Instrumental Right to Democracy
TL;DR: The notion of an entitlement to democracy was introduced by the late Thomas Franck as mentioned in this paper, who argued that his view of democracy was too thin, and argued for an instrumental conception of democracy that ties it to other rights and entitlements.