Militant democracy relies on the idea that democracies ought to defend themselves from anti-
democratic forces by constitutionalising repressive measures. We offer a criticism of this …

Should representative governments restrict the democratic rights of their extremist
opponents? The first edited collection to boast an international group of political scientists …

Empirical studies reveal many citizens' unwillingness to get rid of representative democracy.
A great number of them, however, distrust their representatives and would want …

Athenian ostracism has long captured democratic imaginations because it seems to present
clear evidence of a people (demos) routinely asserting collective power over tyrannical …

Democracy is a precarious thing and it is also 'the very thing that can bring democracy to its
own knees'(Chou 2012: 67). Democracy, even today, has an unfortunate capacity to come …

In liberal democracies, which can be defined as a particular form of representation regime,
the fact that political parties as legitimate channels of this representation can be dissolved …

How should democracies respond to its current troubles with populism, affective
polarization, and dissatisfaction with representative institutions? To devise solutions fit for …

Introduction atteo Bonotti's Partisanship and Political Liberalism in Diverse Societies joined
an outstanding recent theoretical literature that urges us to think of parties and partisanship …

In this dissertation I forward a new, historically grounded interpretation of Spanish liberal
philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) and use it to interrogate prevailing views of …