A Theory of Militant Democracy
The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Published:7th Jan '14
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How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party to America’s Democratic Party during Reconstruction.
ISBN: 9780300188240
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 14mm
Weight: 277g
224 pages