This article opens a Special Issue on Democratic Stress. Against the background of recent debates ‘democratic crisis’, we argue that concept stress’ provides useful way to understand diversity pressures representative democracy faces in contemporary context, as well valuable ‘organising perspective’ for developing more nuanced analyses. We then map out main contributions articles included this ...

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experience of double revolutionary upheavals in russia during the 20th century which produced a new socio-economic regularity on one hand and changed the political system from monarchial to democratic republic and then soviet state and finally presidential republic at the end of 20th century on the other hand are treated as democratic movements. in this regard, crumbling of ex-soviet regime and...