Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-41396-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government ‘by the people’? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality closer to the ideal? Or does it actually make the ideal unattainable?

The volume brings together conceptual historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms and crises of democracy with fresh approaches to the idea of democracy, democratic theory, democratic institutions, trust and distrust, populism, and advancement of technologies in Western societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pulkkinen, Oili

Lagerspetz, Eerik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

Eerik Lagerspetz and Oili Pulkkinen

PART I Trust, Distrust, and Democracy

2 Trust in Science Revisited. Social-Epistemic Challenges in Democratic and Digital Societies

Michael Baurmann

3 Suspicious Minds: Towards a Typology of Political Distrust

Paul-Erik Korvela and Isak Vento

4 Distrust and Democracy

Sari Roman-Lagerspetz

PART II Authoritarianism and Democracy

5 Whose populism? What democracy? On the Conceptual and Normative Connections of Populism and Democracy

Onni Hirvonen

6 Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of Populism

Lars Vinx

7 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Illiberal Challenge

Jonatan Ropponen

8 The Grey Areas of Democracy: Indifference and the Erosion of Democratic Principles from Within

Jussi Metsälä Jussi and Heino Nyyssönen

9 Constitutional Thought, Democracy and Crisis Government

Eerik Lagerspetz

 

PART III Democracy—The Will of the People?

10 From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures

Kari Palonen

11 The Agenda Problem in Referendum Democracy

Eerik Lagerspetz

12 On the Concept and Practice of Democracy in Late Modern Mass Conditions: An Oakeshottian Update Suvi Soininen

Über Autor(innen)

Eerik Lagerspetz is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland.

Oili Pulkkinen is a historian, who is currently researching artificial intelligence, democracy, political subjectivity and time.