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A Theory of Militant Democracy

The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism

Alexander S Kirshner author

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