Extraordinary partisanship in the European Union: Constituent power and the problem of political agency

Patberg, Markus

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“…Looking at these debates, Markus Patberg has recently aimed at reconstructing a distinct type of constitutional partisanship from below in the context of the European Union. According to Patberg such a constitutional partisanship takes its distance from the every-day business of the political system and is concerned with a ‘constitutional agenda rather than certain policy objectives’ (Patberg, 2020: 152). The chief ambition is to first bring about the procedural pre-conditions for democratically deliberating constitutional reform.…”

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Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism

Möller

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Philosophy & Social Criticism

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This article outlines a critical systems theory approach to the study of populism by arguing that populism is an avenue of contestation which assumes a distinct role and function in the existing constitution of the political system. Most notably, it is characterised by the re-entry of a popular sovereignty dimension within regular political procedures. By taking up a critical systems theory perspective, it becomes possible to more precisely distinguish populism from other forms of politics, such as oppositional politics, social movement politics or procedural constitutional politics. Further, populism’s oscillation between democratic and authoritarian dynamics can be elucidated as an inversion which operates from within its political form. Finally, it is argued that the critical systems theory approach provides a more nuanced understanding of populism’s inherent problems and, consequently, moves beyond a blunt defence or rejection of populism as such.

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“…16From a radical democracy perspective cf. Kalyvas, 2008; from a deliberative democracy perspective: Patberg, 2020.…”

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Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism

Möller

2022

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Transnational Populism in Context: The UN, the EU, and Beyond

Möller

2021

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Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics

Ahlhaus

2024

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How should democratic communities decide who should belong? Recent debates about issues such as voting rights for prisoners, denationalization policies or citizenship tests raise this fundamental democratic question. While many scholars argue that decisions about citizenship and voting rights should be more inclusive of subjected outsiders and more independent from electoral partisan politics, we still lack institutional proposals for inclusive and independent membership politics. This article contributes to the nascent institutional turn in the debate about democratic membership boundaries. My aim is to show that normative debates about membership politics can benefit from recent advances in democratic theory on sortition-based democratic innovations, constructive representation and systems thinking. I argue that membership politics could be democratized by introducing a randomly selected political institution, which I call ‘boundary assembly’, that equally represents members and nonmembers and is charged with making binding decisions on a subset of a state’s membership questions. I argue that the strongest objections to empowered randomly selected assemblies (shortcut objection, alienation objection, capture objection, technocracy objection) lose most of their force in the ‘extraordinary’ political context of decisions on membership boundaries. Boundary assemblies cannot ‘solve’ the democratic boundary problem, but they could be a first step toward more democratic membership politics.

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Extraordinary partisanship in the European Union: Constituent power and the problem of political agency

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism

Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism

Transnational Populism in Context: The UN, the EU, and Beyond

Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics

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