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The Public Purpose of Political Economy
This chapter establishes the political negotiation of the public good or common benefit as an indispensable practice of statecraft. We argue that the...
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The Transgressive Economy
This chapter examines Georges Bataille’s groundbreaking theory of the “general economy” for insights into a number of economic and political dynamics...
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Framing War
A particular severe way of constraining (or even outright prohibiting) reasonable policy deliberation is to frame normal policy disagreements as...
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Dogmatism: The Eclipse of Common Truths and the Decay of Civic Trust
When human agency is degraded, human potential is diminished. So are democratic prospects. Fixing the problem is difficult. Throwing out the...
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The Epistemic Vices of Democracies in the Age of Populism
The subject of this paper is how the epistemic limitations of individuals and their biases in reasoning affect collective decisions and in particular...
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Bonapartism: Obsolescence of the “Forms of Government”
Bonapartism is a relatively new political concept. It denotes a new type of political power that emerged at the close of the so-called Great French...
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Anti-Populism of the Left, Right, and Centre: Varieties of Anti-Populist Party Politics in the European “Populist Moment”
This paper examines varieties of anti-populist party politics from left to right that emerged against the backdrop of the much-discussed “populist...
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Thinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break of Tradition
This chapter explains the aim, the background and the most important questions that this book attempts to answer. While proceeding from Hannah...
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Catholic Liberalism: An Anti-Populist Proposal
This chapter explores the axiological convergence between classical liberalism and Catholic Social Thought (CST). The chapter argues that CST and...
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Criticizing War
This chapter uses three examples of critics of US policies in Vietnam with very different (even incompatible) ideologies in order to argue that the...
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Crisis, Hysteresis and Hybridisation of National Resilience
National resilience faces multiple challenges from mutable worldwide and multidimensional crises, including economic ones, pandemics, war, terrorist...
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The Delicate Order of Liberalism
This chapter identifies declining public trust and the advance of a politics of cultural resentment in many “advanced” democracies as problems to...
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A Survey of Constitutional Debates in Spain’s Nineteenth Century
This chapter surveys the main conceptual controversies argued by constituent representatives during nineteenth-century constitutional debates in...
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Understanding Populism from the Voter’s Perspective in Spain: Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Yolanda Díaz in Contrast
Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Yolanda Díaz are two of the most influential female politicians in Spain. The former is President of the Community of Madrid,...
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The neoliberal roots of authoritarian protectionism
Luke Cooper's Authoritarian Contagiondraws attention to the politics of protection proffered by contemporary ethno-nationalist authoritarian rulers....
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The Totalitarianism of the Twentieth Century: Nazi Fascism and Communism
The third chapter ascertains that Fukuyama is right when he discovers that World War I represents one of the biggest catastrophes in human history....
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Trump, Authoritarian Populism, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Technopolitics: From a U.S. Perspective
I engage the contemporary crises of health, the economy, and democracy in the United States during the era of Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic. I...
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People-Centrism in Parliamentary Question Time: Three Montenegrin Prime Ministers Compared
Thin populism is a political-communication style in which political actors refer to the people, identify with them, display closeness to them, and...
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Debt Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Case of the French and Hellenic War Debts
In the aftermath of World War I, a financial war was fought on the battlegrounds of international organizations and financial diplomacy. While the...
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The Crisis of Democracy: A Self-Inflicted Wound
One of the oldest propositions in political science is that a mixed government with checks and balances is superior to the alternatives. Once a...