📣 #MilitantDemocracy out in #OpenAccess @routledgebooks.bsky.social!

📝 Offers one of the first comprehensive theories of #democraticselfdefence. Great to see it’s still relevant to current debates.

🎂 This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Dutch edition!

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Herman Heller on Democratic Self-defence: Militant Democracy Revisited The debate on militant democracy is very much focused on whether legal restrictions against antidemocratic parties are justified. By contrast, this paper moves beyond the legal exclusion dilemma, and ...

Drawing on Hermann Heller, Anthoula Malkopoulou introduces a social conception of democratic self-defence to the debate of #militantdemocracy.

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‼️Important Info

"Lesson:
If you wait for fascists to act illegally, it’s already too late.

#Democracy must have a legal immune system."

"There’s a name for it: #MilitantDemocracy."

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#Disinformation
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#ExistentialWellbeing
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#PsychologicalDefense

"Blending #TragicOptimism and #MilitantDemocracy into a new ethos to resist authoritarianism could form the foundation of a #ResilientDemocracy—a philosophy that combines the emotional and psychological resilience needed to endure crises with the proactive, structural defense of democratic values."

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Actually an excellent piece that shows you the financial cost of disinformation.
#MilitantDemocracy
#Disinformation

Read again our number 1 downloaded article for 2023!

How not to respond to populism

Congrats Anthoula Malkopoulou @uuuniversity.bsky.social @benmoffitt.bsky.social

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#Militantdemocracy #Democraticresilience

What will it be for 2024?! Watch this space...

Read again our number 9 of 2023!

Tolerant & intolerant responses to populist parties: who does what, when & why?

Angela Bourne & Tore Vincents Olsen intro to their SI

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#Populism #Opposition #Tolerance #Militantdemocracy

How not to respond to populism - Comparative European Politics Although the nature and definition of populism are a source of considerable disagreement, there seems to be a minimal consensus by now that populism poses a number of threats to liberal democracy, and...

Read again our TOP 10 of 2023. And at number 1...
The most downloaded article of 2023 is...

How not to respond to populism

Congrats Anthoula Malkopoulou and Benjamin Moffitt

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#Militantdemocracy #Democraticresilience

What will it be for 2024?!

Is the European Union a militant democracy? Democratic backsliding and EU disintegration | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core Is the European Union a militant democracy? Democratic backsliding and EU disintegration - Volume 13 Issue 1

Is the #EuropeanUnion a #MilitantDemocracy?

Should it fight 🔥 with 🔥 to protect democracy and the #RuleOfLaw in the EU?

My #OpenAccess article tackling these two questions is now published in Global Constitutionalism vol. 13(1):104-125

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