Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or capitalism liberal democracy ...

Richard E. Redding (March 2001) is to be complimented for calling attention to the incongruity between the narrowness of psychology’s liberal sociopolitical mentality and its simultaneous reverence for cultural diversity. His justified criticism, however, failed to come to grips with the moral and methodological issues underlying his complaint. Is his objection solely directed at the restricted...

Abstract Recent democratic regressions and crises suggest democracy is at risk across East Southeast Asia. One of the factors that can determine stability are citizens’ attitudes. While previous research has concentrated on support for democracy-in-principle, this contribution argues it political trust, i.e. democracy-in-practice, which crucial stability. For democracies to be stable, trust sho...

Abstract Considering recent re-assessments of Pareto and Mosca, I discuss whether these thinkers’ socio-political orientations contribute to the ‘disfiguration’ democracy (in: Urbinati, Democracy disfigured: opinion, truth, people, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 2014) or provide a resource for renewal democratic institutions. Femia (Pareto political theory, Routledge, Abingdon, 2006) presents as being...

Current diagnoses of a crisis democracy in the Global North go hand with disparaging “look downwards.” Already nineteenth century, liberal thinkers formulated institutional precautions against “rabble.” What is striking about current devaluation discourse that return this downwards” not limited to libertarian or liberal-conservative concepts but also present progressive approaches. We demonstra...

This special issue sheds light on the shift from consensus over democracy and liberal values to increased dissensus. With a focus Central Eastern Europe, it explores nature origi...

The New Far-Right is often equated with fascism within mainstream political discourse. Although there are fascistic elements of the far-right generally, typified by its adoption liberal values and support democracy. Some argue that this a strategy to distance themselves from fascism, while others their pro-liberal position semi-liberal. This article aims understand whether individuals British s...

Abstract It is argued that understanding the norm of political discourse, and it shown why assertions can be epistemically problematic within a liberal democracy even when asserted knowledgeably.

The article compares the views of Polish philosopher civilisation, Feliks Koneczny with American political and scientist, Francis Fukuyama. is a conservative, while Fukuyama liberal, but there are great similarities in their concepts world’s major civilisations. Their on national identity also similar. author considers Koneczny’s concept pluralism civilisations compared to Fukuyama’s unificatio...