Creative Crises of Democracy

Contents: Evert van der Zweerde: Mix the Balance! Democracy as a Paradoxical Process - Paul Lucardie: From Crisis to Democracy? An Exercise in Political Imagination - Marco Verschoor: The Problem of the Legitimacy of the People. The Rawlsian Strategy of Avoidance - Daniel Hausknost: The Epistemic Legitimacy of Liberal Democracy as a Structural Constraint for Radical Politics - Wim de Jong: Political Education and the Recurring Crisis of Democracy in the Netherlands (1945-2010) - Tim Houwen: Populism as a Recurrent Phenomenon of Representative Democracy - Machiel Karskens: Crisis of Democracy as a Repudiation of Politics - Carla Hoetink/Karin van Leeuwen: Dilemmas of Democracy: Early Postwar Debates on European Integration in the Netherlands - Anna Friberg: Towards Total Democracy? The Concept of Democracy within the Swedish Social Democratic Party, 1921-1939 - Joris Gijsenbergh: Crisis of Democracy or Creative Reform? Dutch Debates on the Repression of Parliamentary Representatives and Political Parties, 1933-1940 - Stefan Couperus: Fixing Democracy? Political Representation and the Crisis of Democracy in Interwar Europe and the Netherlands - Martin Conway: The Making of Democratic Stability. The Case of Belgium after 1944 - Jacco Pekelder: From Militancy to Democracy? The Radical Left in West Germany in the 1970s - Wim van Meurs: Political Marches as Markers of Democratic Crisis - Peter Bal: Public Spheres in a Globalizing World. How the Global and the Political Shape and Reshape Public Opinions - Stijn van Kessel: Two of a Kind or Kind of Incompatible? Populist Parties in the Dutch and Polish Party Systems - Saskia Hollander/Monique Leyenaar: Towards a Direct Democratic Era? Assessing the Usage of Direct Democratic Institutions in Europe - David Hugh-Jones: Why Elected Politicians Implement Direct Democracy.

Joris Gijsenbergh, Saskia Hollander, Tim Houwen and Wim de Jong are all involved with the interdisciplinary research project 'Repertoires of Democracy: The Transfer of Democratic Practices', which is based at Radboud University Nijmegen. Gijsenbergh is currently writing a doctoral thesis on democracy and repression of extremism in interwar Dutch society; Hollander is writing a thesis on referendums and European integration; Houwen is writing a thesis on populism and representative democracy; and de Jong is writing his thesis on citizenship education and democracy in the post-war Netherlands.