Inequality, Oligarchy, and Possibilities for Democratic Resilience

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Inequality, Oligarchy, and Possibilities for Democratic Resilience

Original language description

The paper analyzes the influence of oligarchic structures and inequalities on the resilience of democratic systems. It distinguishes between institutional and situational resilience and focuses on the interrelationship between these two forms of resilience. It identifies the lived experience of democracy by ordinary, non-elite citizens as the basis for the second kind of resilience. The paper explores the conditions for experiencing life in a democratic system without devastating moments of anti-systemic critique (i.e., without fundamentally challenging the democratic structure). Anti-systemic critique (of concrete forms of economic life, social relations, and the like) should be included in public argumentation, but in a structurally beneficial way from the point of view of the democratic system. The paper identifies the abovementioned preconditions in the social and economic inequalities inscribed in contemporary societies’ oligarchic or plutocratic structures. The paper identifies these problems and shows that their resolution is a prerequisite for a functioning democracy. Suppose the partially disruptive nature of the democratic experience is seen as a component of democracy. In that case, the paper argues that the question of distributive justice and inequality, in general, should be at least partially foregrounded outside the democratic debate itself.

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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