Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the
challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic …

This article theorises the nexus between mnemonical status anxiety and militant memory
laws. Extending the understanding of status-seeking in international relations to the realm of …

This chapter presents a Typology of Initiatives Opposing Populist Parties, providing a
conceptual framework for empirical analysis of responses to populist parties. On one …

This article aims to explore the political mythology created by the Polish government and its
subservient organizations with an aim to legitimize quasi-militant democracy as a new form …

Departing from a critique of existing classification schemes in work on 'militant'and
'defending'democracy, the article presents a new typology for classifying initiatives opposing …

This chapter presents a methodology for studying why particular post-communist European
neo-militant democracies emerge, while others decline or transform into quasi-militant …

With the electoral victories of authoritarian populists in a range of parliamentary
democracies in recent years, there has been a growing unease with the ability of existing …

The first theory of legitimate opposition in fifty years In political systems defined by legitimate
opposition, those who hold power allow their rivals to peacefully challenge and displace …

In the recent literature on militant democracy, two claims are made on the relation between
its most famous advocate, Karl Loewenstein, and German jurist Carl Schmitt. The first claim …

This paper introduces some of the peculiarities embedded in contemporary research on the
concept of militant democracy in relation to the concept of constitutionalism. As it is well …