An Agonistic Theory of Democratic Parliamentarism. The Case of the Walloon Parliament

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ID13045694
AuthorsArchibald Gustin (0000-0001-9607-8045, University of Liège, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume12
Issue01
Pages89-107
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOpen Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2164-0505 • E-ISSN: 2164-0513
PublisherBentham Science Publishers (PUBLISHER • AE)
DOI10.4236/ojps.2022.121006
OpenAlexW4207002652
LanguageEN
References cited18

Chantal Mouffe is one of the most discussed political theorists of recent years. One of her most important theoretical contributions is her critique of deliberative democracy for its inability to think the political in terms of antagonism and dissensus. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine to what extent Mouffe’s theory of democracy, which she calls “agonistic pluralism” and which she proposes as an alternative to deliberative democracy, can be used to think about the role of the parliamentary institution in a democratic polity. To this end, we mobilize a qualitative method based on the realisation of fifteen semi-structured interviews in order to analyze the case of the Walloon Parliament, with the aim of showing how democratic parliamentarism realizes the staging of the antagonism which, according to Mouffe, founds the domain of the political1

Aggression · Agonism · Agonistic behaviour · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Epistemology · Law and economics · Parliament · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology

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