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"Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order. Over the last decade, liberal democracy has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. In response to seemingly endless crisis conditi...

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Other Authors: Valur Ingimundarson 1961- (Editor), Sveinn M. Jóhannesson (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Series:Routledge studies in anti-politics and democratic crisis
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Summary:"Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order. Over the last decade, liberal democracy has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. In response to seemingly endless crisis conditions, governments have turned with alarming frequency to extraordinary emergency powers derogating the rule of law and democratic processes. The shifting interconnections between new technologies and public power have raised questions about threats posed to democratic values and norms. Finally, the liberal order has been challenged by authoritarian and populist forces, promoting anti-pluralist agendas. Adopting a synoptic perspective that puts liberal disorder at the center of its investigation, this book uses multiple sources to build a common historical and conceptual framework for understanding major contemporary political currents. The contributions weave together historical studies and conceptual analyses of states of exception, emergency powers and their links with technological innovations as well as the tension-ridden relationship between populism and democracy and its theoretical, ideological, and practical implications"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 227 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9780367853280
DOI:10.4324/9780367853280

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