The book posits a theory of militant democracy. Drawing on Karl Popper and Dutch legal scholar George Van den Bergh, it examines the reasons for justifying legal action against extremist parties and develops a new theory of democratic self-correction.
The book posits a theory of militant democracy. Drawing on Karl Popper and Dutch legal scholar George Van den Bergh, it examines the reasons for justifying legal action against extremist parties and develops a new theory of democratic self-correction.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bastiaan R. Rijpkema is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He received his LLB in Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2010) and his LLM in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (cum laude) from Leiden University (2011). In 2015 he obtained his PhD at Leiden University with a dissertation on militant democracy, which was published in Dutch as Weerbare democratie: de grenzen van democratische tolerantie (Nieuw Amsterdam, 2015). For Weerbare democratie he was awarded the prize for the best Dutch political book of the year in 2016, the Prinsjesboekenprijs. In 2017 he won the New Scientist Wetenschapstalentprijs 2017 (New Scientist Science Talent Prize), the prize for the most talented young researcher of the Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch-speaking Belgium).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Origin and development 2. Alternatives and criticism 3. Democracy as self-correction Conclusion Epilogue