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Democratic Theory

Subject Areas: Philosophy
Publisher: Berghahn Journals - Berghahn Books
ISSN: 2332-8894
SJR: 8

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Protest and the Democratic Order: A Research Perspective

Gobbi, Danniel; Gorriahn, Laura; Staemmler, Daniel; Volk, Christian

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090201

The introduction of this special issue elaborates a research perspective on the meaning and function of political protest in the context of democratic orders. Starting from the consideration that protest and democratic orders form a close interrelationship, we ask how and to what extent...
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Beyond (and Before) the Transnational Turn: Recovering Civil Disobedience as Decolonizing Praxis

Pineda, Erin

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090202

Can civil disobedience be transnationalized? This question presumes civil disobedience to be a fundamentally domestic concept—one constitutively tied to both the nation-state and the normative underpinnings of liberal, constitutional democracies. This article shows how this assumption mistakes...
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The Sovereign Awakened: A Radical Democratic View on Protest

Marchart, Oliver

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090203

This article contrasts the liberal idea of a “sleeping sovereign” with the democratic one of a “sovereign awakened.” The right to protest is defended as an expression of popular sovereignty, envisaged as a right to popular “self-awakening” instigated by an imperative call of duty not reducible...
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Reform, Transformation, Emancipation: Conceptualizing Political Protest in Modern Democracies

Volk, Christian

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090204

This article outlines a theoretical framework for interpreting the meaning and function of political protest in modern democracies and develops normative criteria for assessing its democratic quality. To allow for a better understanding of how social structures, legal institutions, and political...
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Reconceptualizing Democratic Innovation: “Democratic Innovation Repertoires” and their Impact Within and Beyond Social Movements

Fominaya, Cristina Flesher

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090205

Democratic innovation is one way the multiple crises of democracy can be addressed. The literature on democratic innovation has yet to adequately interrogate the role of social movements, and more specifically the movement of democratic imaginaries, in innovation, nor has it considered the...
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The Duties to Protest and to Listen to Protest: Communicative Resistance, Enabler's Responsibility, and Echoing

Medina, José

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090206

This article argues that the duties to protest and to listen to protest are central democratic obligations required for active citizenship. Section 1 sketches protest as communicative resistance. Section 2 argues that we always have a duty to listen to felicitous protests against injustice and...
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Theorizing Reactive Democracy: The Social Media Public Sphere, Online Crowds and the Plebiscitary Logic of Online Reactions

Gerbaudo, Paolo

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090207

The diffusion of social media has profoundly transformed the nature and form of the contemporary public sphere, facilitating the rise of new political tactics and movements. In this article, I develop a theory of the social media public sphere as a “plebeian public sphere” whose functioning is...
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Book Symposium

Mantena, Karuna; Getachew, Adom; Näsström, Sofia; Frank, Jason

2022 Democratic Theory

doi:10.3167/dt.2022.090208

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