Democracy and distrust. A discussion of counter-democracy : politics in an age of distrust
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Perspectives on politics, 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 887-895
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SCHMITTER, Philippe C., DELLA PORTA, Donatella, WARREN, Mark E., Democracy and distrust. A discussion of counter-democracy : politics in an age of distrust, Perspectives on politics, 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 887-895 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/17308
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Pierre Rosanvallon is one of the most important political theorists writing in French. Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust is a book about the limits of conventional understandings of democracy. Rosanvallon argues that while most theories of democracy focus on institutionalized forms of political participation (especially elections), the vitality of democracy rests equally on forms of “counter-democracy” through which citizens dissent, protest, and exert pressure from without on the democratic state. This argument is relevant to the concerns of a broad range of political scientists, most especially students of democratic theory, electoral and party politics, social movements, social capital, and “contentious politics.” The goal of this symposium is to invite a number of political scientists who work on these issues to comment on the book from their distinctive disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.
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Published: 23 August 2010