From Crisis to Crisis

Democracy, Crisis and the Occupy Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6348715
AutoresMark Chou (0000-0001-5142-2172, Australian Catholic University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume13
Fascículo1
Páginas46-58
Data de publicação2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1478-9299 • E-ISSN: 1478-9302
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1478-9302.12070
OpenAlexW1551406899
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas20

For a movement that emerged to spotlight the crisis of liberal democracy, it did not take long for the Occupy Movement to find itself embroiled in its own democratic crisis. Occupy's story has exposed just how central or constitutive crises are to democracy. But is crisis such a deleterious thing? Though scholars of democracy have customarily given it a bad name, should we consider democracies to be in trouble when they are met with crisis, when they themselves create a crisis? According to the three volumes reviewed in this article, crises can have the potential to hamper and destroy democracies, but they can also possess the uncanny capacity to reinvigorate them. For scholars of democracy – whether they choose to define ‘democracy’ using a liberal, participatory, deliberative, or some other paradigm – it is perhaps this latter interpretation of crisis that may provide the best way to grapple with what comes next for democracy post-Occupy

Democracy · Interpretation (philosophy · Liberal democracy · Participatory democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Political Theory and Influence