... Westernization/modernization authoritarian parliamentarianism majoritarianism plebiscitarian dictatorship elitism ...

... of reactive politics (capitalist parliamentarianism), his tendencies, following Badiou’s useful formalization, are obscure. As Badiou notes, It is crucial to gauge the gap between the reactive formalism and the obscure formalism. As violent as it may be, reaction conserves...

... as examples of “free world” democracies.) But this return, as I’ve suggested, is no simple repetition but rather a refraction or recurrence in a different register of a historical mode of politics Badiou has named as “capital-parliamentarianism” and closely resembles what the prewar Japanese...

... as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating...

..., and the critical literacy necessary for a participa- tory democracy, the current policy—in the name of practicality—threatens to strengthen rather than relieve the authoritarian tendencies of previous policies regarding higher...

... Raul . 2016 . Continuidad o Ruptura: Perspectivas de Cambio en el Estado Español . Madrid : Capitán Swing Libros . A similar line of alarmist and highly emotional rhetoric was used during the 2015 electoral campaign. Looking to establish a link between Podemos and various authoritarian...

....” Barely disguised as works of scholarship, these works are ideologically loaded advocacies, the one explicitly attacking “Western” culture in general and democracy more specifically in the name of hierarchical authoritarianism, the other making a plea for a Confucian religion not just for the PRC but also...

... case, the flames of such suspicion were fed by the Ottoman Empire’s unique legacy of ethnic, religious, and linguistic impurity. As Young Turk and subsequent Kemalist (1923–1950) rule alike demonstrated, this fear of the mixed self is an essen- tial drive within the authoritarian militarist...