Theory Of Militant Democracy: The Ethics Of Combatting Political Extremism

How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party to America’s Democratic Party during Reconstruction.

• | Author: Alexander S. Kirshner
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 07, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0300188242
• | ISBN-13: 9780300188240