Lehrende: Dr. Dietmar Schirmer
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Anzeige im Stundenplan: VT Pop Lib Dem
Semesterwochenstunden: 3
Credits: 9,0
Standort: Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 5 | 35
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte: The seminar will explore the populist challenge to liberal democracies from two different angles. On the one hand, we will revisit the debate on the sources of discontent with the policy production of contemporary democratic political systems that allows populist challengers to mobilize sizeable chunks of national electorates. This is an as of yet unresolved debate with which every observer of current political struggles is somewhat familiar and that by and large revolves around the question whether people turn to populist parties out of concern over cultural or over economic issues. On the other hand, we will explore the usefulness of an approach that foregrounds not the outputs, but the inputs of policy production. This less-traveled path approaches the issue from a theory of democracy-perspective and asks how changes in the practice of liberal democracy may have opened the door for political actors who turn the tension between the liberal and the democratic ingredients of liberal democracy into a weapon for its destruction.
Lernziele: The seminar seeks to · familiarize students with theories of populism and relate them to relevant debates in the theory of democracy; · engage students with empirical research on contemporary populism; · give students a historical perspective that allows them to contextualize current phenomena in the broader context of contestation over democracy in the twentieth century.
Literatur: Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos (2015). Colin Crouch, Post-Democracy (2004). Philip Manow, Die politische Ökonomie des Populismus (2018). Jan Werner Müller, What Is Populism (2017). Francisco Panizza, ed., Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (2005). Carl Schmitt, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus (2. Auf. 1926) / The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. Jan Zielonka, Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat (2018).
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