I. The Threnody of Liberalism

Hirsch, Herbert

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“…102 Though they may enjoy all of the formal-legal privileges of citizenship, their position ensures they remain "functionally excluded from the political process, and thus effectively excluded from the life of the 'true' political community". 103 Reflecting on these positions, Jeff Spinner-Halev has argued that the existence of persistent minorities "does not necessarily make a state illegitimate, but it does raise the possibility of partial legitimacy". 104 This notion of partial legitimacy can be illuminated further by exploring the conceptual distinctions between majority tyranny and persistent electoral minorities, for although these terms describe very different pathologies, the consequences for the legitimacy of the democratic state are similar.…”

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Democratic Theory and Constitutional Design: Hearing Persistent Electoral Minorities

Hobbs

2017

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights

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Questions of constitutional design, that is, of structuring the political relationship between dominant and non-dominant communities, are recurrent across the globe. While the particular issues faced by each state are distinct, at their root lies a common problem: how should legal and political institutions and processes be designed to provide minority groups or peoples with the capacity to have their interests heard in the processes of government? In this article, I explore how democratic theory conceives of, and answers, this fundamental question.

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Democratic Theory and Constitutional Design: Hearing Persistent Electoral Minorities

Hobbs

2017

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights

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“…15 While it is probably too much to say that most communitarians are searching for love in their writings, their worry over the influence of individual interest in society is unquestionable. Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Jefferson, Tocqueville, Hegel, Arendtall these and many more, with their various political models (the ancient polis, civic republicanism, the general will, local ward meetings, the vita activa, etc.…”

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Confucian and Communitarian Responses to Liberal Democracy

Fox¹

1997

Rev Pol

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As East Asian societies struggle with the implications of modenity, the degree to which their Confucian heritage can support institutions of liberal democracy has been much debated. Recently, several authors have argued that the nations of Confucian Asia are indeed modernizing, but in the direction of “illiberal democracy”, which they see as an approach to democratic practice that takes communitarian concerns like social solidarity and political virtue into greater account than other, more liberal democratic societies do. In line with that argument, this article makes an introductory comparison of classical Confucian and contemporary communitarian thought, criticizes the view of Confucianism as necessarily authoritarian and suggests that Confucian theory and practice provides a strong and in many ways unique communitarian response to liberalism, without fundamentally invalidating those humanistic principles basic to democratic reform.

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City Life and Difference

Young¹

1995

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I. The Threnody of Liberalism

Cited by 41 publications

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Democratic Theory and Constitutional Design: Hearing Persistent Electoral Minorities

Democratic Theory and Constitutional Design: Hearing Persistent Electoral Minorities

Confucian and Communitarian Responses to Liberal Democracy

City Life and Difference

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