How to Think about Liberal and Democratic Principles: Three Models of Illiberal Democracy

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2024.1s13" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2024.1s13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How to Think about Liberal and Democratic Principles: Three Models of Illiberal Democracy

Original language description

This article aims to examine how to think about illiberal democracy which is a threat democracy is currently facing. In some detail, three models of democracy are analysed, which differ in how they understand the relationship between liberal and democratic principles, likewise demonstrating what conception they have of illiberal democracy. First of these is Schumpeter&apos;s theory of competitive democracy, which seeks the liberal taming of democracy. Second, Schmitt&apos;s argument that liberal and democratic principles are contradictory, and third, Urbinati&apos;s theory of democracy, which acknowledges their inner coherence. Urbinati, however, rejects the concept of illiberal democracy as an oxymoron. Thus, this article also examines how illiberal democracy could be meaningfully and with some theoretical advantages considered, even within the framework of the internal coherence of both principles. In such a case, illiberal democracy will refer to the systematic effort to weaken liberal principles in the process of the formation of political will and public opinion in a democratic setting, thus bringing the regime at the edge of an authoritarian one. It shows the point where democracy ends.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

72

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

13-29

UT code for WoS article

001273276400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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