Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 359910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin Ask |
| FAMILY NAME | Popp-Madsen |
| SIGNATURE | POPP-MADSEN B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3511-1750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dis-embedding forces and associative counter-movements
The opposition between individual rights and state sovereignty, which continues to structure political and economic discussions today, is only in apparent contradiction, as they form the two poles of the dominant individual-state imaginary of social and political order. This is highlighted when contrasting it to the model of social order it has historically combatted, namely, the associative imaginary. The two display an antagonistic understandin…
Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly
Political struggles are entwined with the freedom of assembly, yet the latter is construed in entirely incompatible ways in both theory and practice. This article reconstructs three distinct concepts of freedom of assembly, their content and complex interrelations. This typology integrates these diverging perspectives on the freedom of assembly into a single coherent theoretical framework. The three concepts of the freedom of assembly are liberal…
Vision and Exemplarity
This article is concerned with the relationship between political theory, history, and methodology. It cautions against a further ‘methodologization’ of political theory. The article argues against what recently has been called the ‘methodological militancy’ within political theory, which on methodological grounds seeks to keep history and theory strictly apart from each other. Instead, the article argues that political thinking ought to combine …
Non-domination and constituent power
Two of the dominant frameworks for criticizing capitalism and liberal democracy in contemporary political theory is Socialist republicanism, on the one hand, and radical democracy, on other hand. Whereas radical democratic thinkers have for decades criticized liberal democracy for being elitist, hierarchical and outright anti-popular, socialist republicans have for the last 10 years developed critiques of capitalism centred on the neo-republican …
The spirits of democratic enterprise
This paper proposes an ideal typology, based on Danish cooperative history, of contending ‘spirits’ that inform the establishment of democratically-owned enterprises. Democratic enterprises have in recently been subject of increasing interest from scholars and activists as an alternative to the neoliberal corporation. However, studies on democratic enterprises lack a historical understanding of the constitution of the democratic sector of the eco…
Radical Republicanism
Over the last two decades republican thought has attracted a growing interest from political, moral and legal scholars. These contemporary theoretical syntheses of ‘neo-republican’ thought have been closely related to intellectual history and the idea of recovering an overshadowed tradition of political thought. In this vein, a classical set of historical moments and places (e.g., ancient Rome, renaissance Italy, civil-war England or revolutionar…
From Neo-Republicanism to Socialist Republicanism
This article engages with socialist republicanism, which is preoccupied with extending freedom as non-domination, central to the neo-republican revival, from the political sphere of formal democracy to the economic sphere of capitalist production. Firstly, we discuss the transition from neo-republicanism to socialist republicanism. Secondly, we reconstruct the socialist republicanism of Antonio Gramsci, who was involved in the council movements i…
Defending democracy
With the electoral victories of authoritarian populists in a range of parliamentary democracies in recent years, there has been a growing unease with the ability of existing democratic institutions to keep such authoritarian threats under control. The election of authoritarian leaning figures in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Philippines, Brazil, Russia, and the United States has led many to doubt the capacity of the institutions of parliamen…
Workers’ Councils and Radical Democracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 228676.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Between Constituent Power and Political Form
This essay goes beyond the dominant conception of constituent power developed by Emmanuel Sieyès and Carl Schmitt by excavating an alternative through the practices of twentieth-century workers’ councils and the interpretations of council democracy by Cornelius Castoriadis and Hannah Arendt. Interpreters of the constituent power often agree on its fundamentally antagonistic relation to constituted power, hereby making constituent politics a momen…
Sortition-infused democracy
This article addresses two great global challenges of the 2020s. On one hand, the accelerating climate crisis and, on the other, the deepening crisis of representation within liberal democracies. As temperatures and water levels rise, rates of popular confidence in existing democratic institutions decline. So, what is to be done? This article discusses whether sortition - the ancient Greek practice of selecting individuals for political office th…
From Workers’ Councils to Democratic Autonomy
Cornelius Castoriadis is one of the most important democratic thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century, and his theory of autonomy and the self-instituted character of society are fundamental to many post-Marxist theories of democracy. The role of the council system in Castoriadis' work, though, has rarely been investigated, and his analysis of the twentieth century workers' councils of has seldom been connected to his important conce…
Should we be afraid? Liberal democracy, democratic backsliding, and contemporary populism
The next revolution
The next revolution
Defending democracy
With the electoral victories of authoritarian populists in a range of parliamentary democracies in recent years, there has been a growing unease with the ability of existing democratic institutions to keep such authoritarian threats under control. The election of authoritarian leaning figures in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Philippines, Brazil, Russia, and the United States has led many to doubt the capacity of the institutions of parliamen…
Sortition-infused democracy
This article addresses two great global challenges of the 2020s. On one hand, the accelerating climate crisis and, on the other, the deepening crisis of representation within liberal democracies. As temperatures and water levels rise, rates of popular confidence in existing democratic institutions decline. So, what is to be done? This article discusses whether sortition - the ancient Greek practice of selecting individuals for political office th…
Workers’ Councils and Radical Democracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 228676.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Between Constituent Power and Political Form
This essay goes beyond the dominant conception of constituent power developed by Emmanuel Sieyès and Carl Schmitt by excavating an alternative through the practices of twentieth-century workers’ councils and the interpretations of council democracy by Cornelius Castoriadis and Hannah Arendt. Interpreters of the constituent power often agree on its fundamentally antagonistic relation to constituted power, hereby making constituent politics a momen…
Should we be afraid? Liberal democracy, democratic backsliding, and contemporary populism
Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly
Political struggles are entwined with the freedom of assembly, yet the latter is construed in entirely incompatible ways in both theory and practice. This article reconstructs three distinct concepts of freedom of assembly, their content and complex interrelations. This typology integrates these diverging perspectives on the freedom of assembly into a single coherent theoretical framework. The three concepts of the freedom of assembly are liberal…
Non-domination and constituent power
Two of the dominant frameworks for criticizing capitalism and liberal democracy in contemporary political theory is Socialist republicanism, on the one hand, and radical democracy, on other hand. Whereas radical democratic thinkers have for decades criticized liberal democracy for being elitist, hierarchical and outright anti-popular, socialist republicans have for the last 10 years developed critiques of capitalism centred on the neo-republican …
From Neo-Republicanism to Socialist Republicanism
This article engages with socialist republicanism, which is preoccupied with extending freedom as non-domination, central to the neo-republican revival, from the political sphere of formal democracy to the economic sphere of capitalist production. Firstly, we discuss the transition from neo-republicanism to socialist republicanism. Secondly, we reconstruct the socialist republicanism of Antonio Gramsci, who was involved in the council movements i…
The next revolution
From Workers’ Councils to Democratic Autonomy
Cornelius Castoriadis is one of the most important democratic thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century, and his theory of autonomy and the self-instituted character of society are fundamental to many post-Marxist theories of democracy. The role of the council system in Castoriadis' work, though, has rarely been investigated, and his analysis of the twentieth century workers' councils of has seldom been connected to his important conce…
Should we be afraid? Liberal democracy, democratic backsliding, and contemporary populism
Workers’ Councils and Radical Democracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 228676.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Between Constituent Power and Political Form
This essay goes beyond the dominant conception of constituent power developed by Emmanuel Sieyès and Carl Schmitt by excavating an alternative through the practices of twentieth-century workers’ councils and the interpretations of council democracy by Cornelius Castoriadis and Hannah Arendt. Interpreters of the constituent power often agree on its fundamentally antagonistic relation to constituted power, hereby making constituent politics a momen…
Sortition-infused democracy
This article addresses two great global challenges of the 2020s. On one hand, the accelerating climate crisis and, on the other, the deepening crisis of representation within liberal democracies. As temperatures and water levels rise, rates of popular confidence in existing democratic institutions decline. So, what is to be done? This article discusses whether sortition - the ancient Greek practice of selecting individuals for political office th…
The spirits of democratic enterprise
This paper proposes an ideal typology, based on Danish cooperative history, of contending ‘spirits’ that inform the establishment of democratically-owned enterprises. Democratic enterprises have in recently been subject of increasing interest from scholars and activists as an alternative to the neoliberal corporation. However, studies on democratic enterprises lack a historical understanding of the constitution of the democratic sector of the eco…
Radical Republicanism
Over the last two decades republican thought has attracted a growing interest from political, moral and legal scholars. These contemporary theoretical syntheses of ‘neo-republican’ thought have been closely related to intellectual history and the idea of recovering an overshadowed tradition of political thought. In this vein, a classical set of historical moments and places (e.g., ancient Rome, renaissance Italy, civil-war England or revolutionar…
From Neo-Republicanism to Socialist Republicanism
This article engages with socialist republicanism, which is preoccupied with extending freedom as non-domination, central to the neo-republican revival, from the political sphere of formal democracy to the economic sphere of capitalist production. Firstly, we discuss the transition from neo-republicanism to socialist republicanism. Secondly, we reconstruct the socialist republicanism of Antonio Gramsci, who was involved in the council movements i…
Defending democracy
With the electoral victories of authoritarian populists in a range of parliamentary democracies in recent years, there has been a growing unease with the ability of existing democratic institutions to keep such authoritarian threats under control. The election of authoritarian leaning figures in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Philippines, Brazil, Russia, and the United States has led many to doubt the capacity of the institutions of parliamen…
Non-domination and constituent power
Two of the dominant frameworks for criticizing capitalism and liberal democracy in contemporary political theory is Socialist republicanism, on the one hand, and radical democracy, on other hand. Whereas radical democratic thinkers have for decades criticized liberal democracy for being elitist, hierarchical and outright anti-popular, socialist republicans have for the last 10 years developed critiques of capitalism centred on the neo-republican …
Vision and Exemplarity
This article is concerned with the relationship between political theory, history, and methodology. It cautions against a further ‘methodologization’ of political theory. The article argues against what recently has been called the ‘methodological militancy’ within political theory, which on methodological grounds seeks to keep history and theory strictly apart from each other. Instead, the article argues that political thinking ought to combine …
Dis-embedding forces and associative counter-movements
The opposition between individual rights and state sovereignty, which continues to structure political and economic discussions today, is only in apparent contradiction, as they form the two poles of the dominant individual-state imaginary of social and political order. This is highlighted when contrasting it to the model of social order it has historically combatted, namely, the associative imaginary. The two display an antagonistic understandin…
Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly
Political struggles are entwined with the freedom of assembly, yet the latter is construed in entirely incompatible ways in both theory and practice. This article reconstructs three distinct concepts of freedom of assembly, their content and complex interrelations. This typology integrates these diverging perspectives on the freedom of assembly into a single coherent theoretical framework. The three concepts of the freedom of assembly are liberal…
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