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Legitimate Opposition

By Alexander S. Kirshner

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780300268744
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
873 kB (894230 bytes)
Pages
296\292
Time added
2023-05-30 01:14:15

Description

The first theory of legitimate opposition in fifty years Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Opposition’s Value The Adversarial Conception of Legitimate Opposition 3. Opposition under Attack Democracy, Populism, and the Specter of Electoral Autocracy 4. Rethinking Opposition’s Boundaries Athens, Ostracism, and Monopolistic Power 5. Opposition without Democracy Roman Competition, Violence, and the Limits of Clockwork Constitutionalism 6. It’s the State, Not Parties Why Legitimate Opposition Is a Preeminent Constitutional Principle 7. Democracy without Opposition Condorcet, Sieyès, and the French Revolution 8. Conclusion Notes References Index

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