Transformations of Democracy and the Problem of Wealth. Some Remarks on Oligarchy and the Czech Case

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2024.1s101" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2024.1s101</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2024.1s101" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2024.1s101</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Transformations of Democracy and the Problem of Wealth. Some Remarks on Oligarchy and the Czech Case

Original language description

There are many signs that our democracies are undergoing a transformation: populism, an erosion of civic participation in political parties, to replace citizens’ decision-making with expert knowledge, and the growing power of super-wealthy people. Urbinati grasps these problems in terms of three phenomena: technocratic depoliticisation, populism, and plebiscitarianism. This article argues that the central issue in contemporary democracies is wealth and inequality, and that is why we need a fully developed concept of oligarchy. Although Urbinati tries to take oligarchy into account, she does so mainly in relation to media ownership. This article considers oligarchy as a phenomenon typical for the contemporary era, and analyses it in the context f the development of Czech society during the last decade. The article adapts Jeffrey A. Winters’ oligarchy theory to the Czech context, effectively connecting political and societal spheres. Finally, the article suggests that only a re-conceptualised theory of democracy enriched by the theory of oligarchy can provide an effective starting point for addressing the pitfalls of the transformations of democracy.

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

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

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

23

Pages from-to

101-123

UT code for WoS article

001273276400007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85201410061