...Francis Fukuyama This article is part of Global Perspectives Review Symposium on Democracy. Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, director of its Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy, and a faculty member...

... paternalistic decisions on which objects are endowed with publicly significant meaning and thus are worthy of being protected by criminal law. Among the many revisions of perspectives that occurred in the 1970s in the intellectual life and media of capitalist democracies, there was one new theme...

... content and normative standing, without answering them definitively: 1. Correspondence: [email protected] 24 7 2023 2 8 2023 common good social ontology holism democracy value pluralism Since 1 the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the notion...

...Craig Calhoun; Dilip Gaonkar; Charles Taylor We appreciate four reviews addressing our book, Degenerations of Democracy . Each points to ways democracy may be advanced and also raises questions about our argument. We respond to the latter and briefly build on the former. These are directions...

... argument was that post–Cold War multipolarity was waning toward the building of two competing major camps/states from Europe, Asia, and Africa with the United States that were creating multilateral cooperation of free market economy and trade, as well as shared values—democracy and human rights along...

...Stein Ringen This commentary is part of Global Perspectives review symposium on democracy. 1. [email protected] 3 2 2023 3 2 2023 Democracy Culture Social Media Power Out of three books as scrutinized by four eminent scholars comes a remarkable...

...Michael Hechter This review is part of Global Perspectives Review Symposium on Democracy. Now these are all worthy goals, but how can they be implemented? Even Democratic legislators couldn’t agree to support them, to say nothing of the Republicans. We might wonder just how effective...

...Ewa Atanassow Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022) Stein Ringen, How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) Reviewing two recent books, Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism...

...Steven E. Zipperstein The three books featured in this Global Perspectives review symposium – Stein Ringen’s How Democracies Live; Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and its Discontents; and Craig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor’s Degenerations of Democracy – each raise important and urgent...

..., the problem of methodological nationalism, and what the social sciences mean today. They also talk about the impact of neoliberalism, the state of democracy, and the role of civil society. MK: I think they are the consequence of four decades of neoliberalism. A very harsh free market philosophy was imposed...

... of liberal democracies, their problem-solving capacity was limited, and the process of making decisions approached democratic ideals at best. Yet the current predicament goes deeper. We lack a compelling vision of ideal political institutions for handling global problems such as climate change. In order...

... and forms of authoritarianism. 1. [email protected] © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. 2021 political theory economic governance democracy authoritarianism neoliberalism Martin Beddeleem is a postdoctoral fellow...

... clear. In the longstanding liberal democracies today, political party ties to civil society groups have weakened, parties are less differentiated on economic policy, and citizens increasingly turn to mass protest, rather than civic engagement, to express their grievances. John Keane’s “Hopes for Civil...

...Claus Offe; Helmut K. Anheier In this interview, Claus Offe and Helmut Anheier examine the state of Eastern Europe 30 years after the fall of communism, explore the relationship between capitalism and democracy, and discuss what the social sciences mean today. They talk about the stresses...

... and the complex problems in studying the shocks created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Second part is devoted to major challenges and trade-offs states, governments and citizens have to face currently, focusing on one particular which is crucial for the future quality of liberal democracies, that is a trade-off...

... Habermas’s understanding that “democratic self-government means that the addressees of mandatory laws are at the same time their authors” (Habermas 2012, 14) , is incompatible with national democracy. Why did Jacques Delors and the European Commission nevertheless argue for the creation of Europe-wide...

... and minds between the main political protagonists. The following section scrutinizes the policies applied by these actors, and their implications for democracy. The final section tries to envisage a democratic politics suitable for the world of viruses, super-bugs, climate change, poverty and hyper...

.... [email protected] © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. 2020 policing populism governance democracy ralf dahrendorf revolution totalitarianism civil society Forty years ago, mere mention of the phrase civil society generally caused...

...-Wolfgang Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1991 Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang. 1991. Staat, Verfassung, Demokratie: Studien zur Verfassungstheorie und zum Verfassungsrecht . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. The Quality of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Democracy under Stress...

... the evolution of modern banking systems, where central banks operate as a central authority to regulate the distribution of credit through the economy. capitalism democracy european law eurozone crisis european union karl polanyi Market openness and social closure: this divide has long...