Reviving democracy
Creating pathways out of legitimacy crises
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12717396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry Macdonald (0000-0002-9105-8886, University of Melbourne, Australia Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2020; 272 pp. ISBN: 9780691181998, $35/£28 (hbk) John Gastil and Katherine Knobloch, Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics, Oxford University Press: New York, 2019; 240 pp. ISBN: 9780190084523, £71 (hbk) Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan and John Boswell, Mending Democracy: Democratic Repair in Disconnected..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 181-191 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14748851211020625 |
| OpenAlex | W3201084961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Over the last several years, democratic citizens and theorists have been grappling with an upsurge in political commentary on the crisis and decline of democratic legitimacy around the world. Increasingly, theoretical attention is turning from the philosophical justification of ambitious moral ideals of democracy, to the interpretation of potentials within existing political practice for democratic renewal and repair. This review article examines three new books at the forefront of this theoretical turn towards engagement with the real-world political dynamics of democratic crisis and revival: Open Democracy by Hélène Landemore; Hope for Democracy by John Gastil and Katherine Knobloch; and Mending Democracy by Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan and John Boswell. It begins by surveying the new contributions of these books – highlighting the importance all attribute to creative political agency as a source of revival in democratic practice. It then discusses several questions left unresolved by these books – concerning the problem of democratic legitimacy, the normativity of democratic standards and the power dynamics undergirding democratic agency – which jointly mark out an important agenda for future theoretical work on pathways out of democratic crisis
Agency (philosophy · Democracy · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
A Lot of People Are Saying
Mending Democracy
Crises of Democracy
The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory
The People vs. Democracy
Open Democracy
Democratic Deficit
The Contemporary Crisis of Representative Democracy
Justice, legitimacy and (normative) authority for political realists
Justification Crisis
Legitimacy in Realist Thought
Language and legitimacy
Towards a ‘pluralist’ world order
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |