Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Giovanni Capoccia
• ANTHOULA MALKOPOULOU
• ALEXANDER S. KIRSHNER

Titel

Militant Democracy and the Study of Political Tolerance

Ist Teil von

• Militant Democracy and Its Critics, 2019, p.133

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The ‘democratic dilemma’ of ‘how much freedom for the enemies of freedom’ has traditionally been an important theme of debate for political and legal theorists (e.g. Müller 2012c). By contrast, political scientists have paid much less attention to how different democratic regimes navigate this dilemma in practical terms – namely, how and why democracies actually vary in their response to the actions of anti-democratic groups. The absence of a robust comparative empirical research agenda on ‘militant democracy’ (Loewenstein 1937a, 1937b), defined as the set of policies that a democratic state enacts and implements to limit the rights of expression and