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Why do liberals dominate American culture? Whatever happened to the white working-class Democratic voter? Have progressives gotten out too far ahead of the American electorate? I get into this and lots more with MSU political scientist Matt Grossmann in this discussion of his latest book, Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics. https://bit.ly/4edak1u

A very illuminating read. Helps to understand what is and has been going on in US politics (and society) a lot - especially shedding light on underlying dynamics and developments. Especially enlightening: the partisanship that exists these days, and how it came about. By Steven Levitski and Daniel Ziblatt. First published in 2018 - still very relevant.

A recently published article with my IU and Ostrom Workshop colleagues Aurelian Craiutu and Mike McGinnis: ABSTRACT Liberalism offers communities an eclectic set of core values and diverse institutions that may improve the chances that people with varying beliefs and life goals can live and work together in relative peace and prosperity. Yet liberal democracy is under threat, once again. Anti-liberal populists on the right and radicals on the left both dismiss core civil and political rights, but for different reasons: unrealistic expectations for moral consensus or equality of outcomes, respectively. Similarly, too many self-described liberals act illiberally, allowing their enthusiasm for a particular cause to justify sacrificing other core values. This essay has three purposes: (1) to counter recurring forecasts of the death of liberalism; (2) to clarify that liberalism’s normative, political, and institutional diversity has proven essential to its survival thus far; and (3) to suggest ways in which liberalism’s diversity may be further enriched by incorporating polycentric governance and other aspects of institutional analysis as developed by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. https://lnkd.in/gKXruaxk

This is maybe the best short article about the current politics I have ever read! It talks about the origins and consequentes of the dominance of transcendence, traditionalism and hyper-singularism in politics nowadays!

"the power of Democracy" The people have the direct authority to deliberate and decide legislation. The origin of the modern idea of democracy can be described as theoretically intertwined with a normative critique of the role played by power in political societies. The democratic ideal, as emerging from the work of Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau, is intrinsically related to a certain interpretation of the ideal of a limitation of power. The doctrine of the separation of powers, introduced by the first two authors, as well as the notion of the sovereignty of the General Will at the basis of Rousseau’s political thought – as opposed to what he describes as a situation of alienation and enslavement of the people, inevitably resulting from monocratic government (2008: 17) – are attempts to provide normative guidelines for the creation of a legitimate society. At the basis of the idea of democracy there is, then, the idea of the dispersion of power. However, the value of democratic institutions is not to be found in the achievement of an equal distribution of power among the citizens of a society per se: The distribution of power is instrumental to more fundamental goods, such as the protection of individual freedom and, even more prominently, the ‘equal consideration of individual interests’ (Dahl 1989: 86) in the collective decision-making process. #humanvalues001 #Morewelessme

"the power of democracy " The people have the direct authority to deliberate and decide legislation. The origin of the modern idea of democracy can be described as theoretically intertwined with a normative critique of the role played by power in political societies. The democratic ideal, as emerging from the work of Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau, is intrinsically related to a certain interpretation of the ideal of a limitation of power. The doctrine of the separation of powers, introduced by the first two authors, as well as the notion of the sovereignty of the General Will at the basis of Rousseau’s political thought – as opposed to what he describes as a situation of alienation and enslavement of the people, inevitably resulting from monocratic government (2008: 17) – are attempts to provide normative guidelines for the creation of a legitimate society. At the basis of the idea of democracy there is, then, the idea of the dispersion of power. However, the value of democratic institutions is not to be found in the achievement of an equal distribution of power among the citizens of a society per se: The distribution of power is instrumental to more fundamental goods, such as the protection of individual freedom and, even more prominently, the ‘equal consideration of individual interests’ (Dahl 1989: 86) in the collective decision-making process. #humanvalues001 #Morewelessme

I am thrilled to share my first article published on Arcadia. In this piece, I explore the ongoing crisis of liberal democracy and propose a way forward through the concept of agonistic pluralism. The article dives into the limitations of consensus-driven politics and argues for a more inclusive, conflict-embracing approach to revitalizing democracy. 🔗 Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eN_WMMYd

This essay attempts to interpret Manipur’s politics regarding ongoing violence by using Gramsci-inspired theories while prioritising ‘ethnicity’ over ‘class.’ https://lnkd.in/gUNVSt2E

The people have the direct authority to deliberate and decide legislation. The origin of the modern idea of democracy can be described as theoretically intertwined with a normative critique of the role played by power in political societies. The democratic ideal, as emerging from the work of Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau, is intrinsically related to a certain interpretation of the ideal of a limitation of power. The doctrine of the separation of powers, introduced by the first two authors, as well as the notion of the sovereignty of the General Will at the basis of Rousseau’s political thought – as opposed to what he describes as a situation of alienation and enslavement of the people, inevitably resulting from monocratic government (2008: 17) – are attempts to provide normative guidelines for the creation of a legitimate society. At the basis of the idea of democracy there is, then, the idea of the dispersion of power. However, the value of democratic institutions is not to be found in the achievement of an equal distribution of power among the citizens of a society per se: The distribution of power is instrumental to more fundamental goods, such as the protection of individual freedom and, even more prominently, the ‘equal consideration of individual interests’ (Dahl 1989: 86) in the collective decision-making process. #humanvalues001 #morewelessme