Arbeitspapier | Working paper
The impact of 1989 on theoretical perceptions of democracy
The revolutions of 1989 have predominantly been understood as the confirmation of Western, liberal democracy as the ultimate model of the modern polity. Here, it is however argued that there is more to 1989 than the mere collapse of the communist world as the direct alternative to Western modernity. 1989 has had subtle implications for rethinking democracy. 1989 should not be understood as merely marking the triumph of Western liberal democracy, but instead, it can be shown that the events of 1989 and dissident thought also entailed a variety of alternative democratic models, the retrieval of which can help reinvigorate (and in many cases has already done so) current debates on democracy. In the essay, I will first argue that the general interpretation of 1989 as a triumph of liberal democracy is problematic. I will then proceed by discussing four alternative understandings of democracy that have emerged with 1989, for analytical purposes represented as democratic models: radicalized liberal democracy, republican democracy, civil democracy, and cosmopolitan democracy. The alternative dimensions of democracy as articulated by East-Central European dissidents have been sensed, picked up, and re-elaborated in political theory since 1989, in this contributing to perceptive shifts in the democratic imaginary.
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Der Einfluss von 1989 auf theoretische Wahrnehmungen der Demokratie
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Seite(n): 15
- Sprache
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Englisch
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; nicht begutachtet
- Erschienen in
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Working Paper Series of the Research Network 1989 (21)
- Thema
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Politikwissenschaft
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
politischer Wandel
Dissident
Liberalismus
Demokratie
Kosmopolitismus
Republikanismus
politische Geschichte
Kommunismus
politische Theorie
Osteuropa
deskriptive Studie
historisch
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Blokker, Paul
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland, Berlin
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2008
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-32319
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Blokker, Paul
Entstanden
- 2008
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