Unravelling the New Plebiscitary Democracy

Towards a Research Agenda

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ID6265609
AutoresFrank Hendriks (0000-0001-7393-4144, Tilburg University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen56
Número4
Páginas615-639
Fecha de publicación2021-10-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGovernment and Opposition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/gov.2020.4
OpenAlexW3010995055
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas59

Pushed by technological, cultural and related political drivers, a ‘new plebiscitary democracy’ is emerging which challenges established electoral democracy as well as variants of deliberative democracy. The new plebiscitary democracy reinvents and radicalizes longer-existing methods (initiative, referendum, recall, primary, petition, poll) with new tools and applications (mostly digital). It comes with a comparatively thin conceptualization of democracy, invoking the bare notion of a demos whose aggregated will is to steer actors and issues in public governance in a straight majoritarian way. In addition to unravelling the reinvented logic of plebiscitary democracy in conceptual terms, this article fleshes out an empirically informed matrix of emerging formats, distinguishing between votations that are ‘political-leader’ and ‘public-issue’ oriented on the one hand, and ‘inside-out’ and ‘outside-in’ initiated on the other hand. Relatedly, it proposes an agenda for systematic research into the various guises, drivers and implications of the new plebiscitary democracy. Finally, it reflects on possible objections to the argumentation

Argumentation theory · Conceptualization · Corporate governance · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Direct democracy · E-democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics

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