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Liberal Responses to Populism
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Liberal Responses to Populism

by Karen Horn, Stefan Kolev, Julian F. Müller
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
10h 14m
English
De Gruyter
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Part I: Populism – Its Nature and Causes

Disappointing democracy? Individual liberty, popular rule, and the yearning for sovereignty

Maximilian Priebe

What does it mean to be a liberal in contrast to being a populist? I will try to answer this question on the premise that populists beg a central question of modern politics: the question of popular sovereignty. This claim is old: it stems from an interpretation of democracy in the lineage of thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Carl Schmitt, who take literally the idea of the kratos of the demos, the rule of the people, and thus inspire an image of a self-governing society in which “those [people] who rule and those who are ruled are the same” (Schmitt 2017 [1923], 20). In this ...

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ISBN: 9783111575681