On the Side of the Angels

Rosenblum, Nancy L.

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“…46 Seyla Benhabib and Rainer Forst also emphasise the importance of political agency in linking justice and transnational democracy, and mention legislative and executive institutions, human rights organisations, social movements and pro-immigration campaigns as relevant sites of democratic will-formation contributing to reshaping the people. 47 Yet they are vague on what distinguishes these agents from each other, how and why they contribute to the enactment of popular sovereignty, and how they differ from interest groups, transnational corporations, or business lobbies. Though scholars in this tradition note the importance of identifying genuine justification (or communicative freedom) by recourse to certain formal preconditions imposing constraints on the kinds of reason exchanged (e.g., the equality of discursive agents, their symmetrical entitlement to speech acts and the reciprocity of communicative roles), they seldom extend this reflection to the agents appropriate to channelling such reasons in institutional discourse.…”

Section: The People As Partisan Processmentioning

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The Politics of Peoplehood

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Ypi

2015

Political Theory

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Contemporary political theory has made the question of the "people" a topic of sustained analysis. This article identifies two broad approaches taken-norm-based and contestation-based-and, noting some problems left outstanding, goes on to advance a complementary account centred on partisan practice. It suggests the definition of "the people" is closely bound up in the analysis of political conflict, and that partisans engaged in such conflict play an essential role in constructing and contesting different principled conceptions. The article goes on to show how such an account does not lead to a normatively hollow, purely historical conception of "the people," but rather highlights the normative importance of practices that, at the minimum, de-naturalise undesirable conceptions of the people and, at their best, give political legitimacy and a representative basis to those one might wish to see prosper. Keywords democratic theory, partisanship, peopleIn democratic theory and practice, the concept of the people is used to evoke that agent in the name of whom power should be exercised if it is to be considered justified. Yet what a people is and how it can be legitimately constituted is a matter of enduring dispute. If we follow the larger part of democratic

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Section: The People As Partisan Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Peoplehood

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Ypi

2015

Political Theory

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“…Yet if partisanship within the Mexicanborn community were largely or exclusively "negative," troubling normative implications could be raised. For the general public, affirming positive connections to a major party can orient individuals toward the political system in a constructive manner, provide a basis for interpreting policy issues and evaluating government performance, and offer a framework for collective political action (Green et al 2002;Huddy, Mason, and Aaroe 2015;Lewis-Beck et al 2008;Muirhead 2014;Rosenblum 2008). The noteworthy rise of positive partisanship for Mexican immigrants during major national campaign cycles can thus be taken as a welcome harbinger of democratic inclusion (Lewis-Beck and Stegmaier 2016; Rosenblum and Tivig 2014;Sears, Danbold, and Zavala 2016).…”

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Partisanship by Invitation: Immigrants Respond to Political Campaigns

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Chávez

2016

The Journal of Politics

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“…29 In her analysis of the forms of anti-party-ism, Nancy Rosenblum demonstrates that no matter their professed animosity against parties, in effect old and new anti-party-ists are in all respect partisans, radical partisans of one and only one form of party, the one that is capable of defeating the party system and saving the only 'good' party around. 30 Canvassing against a corrupt and impermeable political system, Hugo Chávez entered politics by creating his own social movement, in the form of 'Bolivarian committees' and diverse civic groups, which developed proposals for constitutional reforms. But once he was in power, he gradually embodied those movements within the state, thereby making his 'anti-party' into a holistic project that solidified in a new institutional order.…”

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Liquid parties, dense populism

Urbinati

2019

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Before proceeding, I would like to clarify briefly two interpretative premises, one methodological and one normative, which sustain my argument. Understanding the transformations facing constitutional democratic societies is a demanding task. These transformations, whose multiple causes are socio-economic not merely political, reflect on the one hand in the decline of mass party form of organization and on the other in the success of populism as not simply a movement of contestation but as a ruling power. In this article, I will suggest that the successes of populism are connected to the decline of organized parties, the pillar of constitutional democracy as it emerged after 1945. It is impossible to predict whether populism will succeed in becoming the new form of democracy. It is, however, certain that contemporary representative governments are facing astonishing mutations and the decline of the party form of representative unification of claims and ideas is one of them. My argument relies upon a phenomenology of populism as a movement that is strong in proportion as organized parties are weak, which actually capitalizes on a revolt against intermediary bodies such as parties. 1

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On the Side of the Angels

Cited by 83 publications

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The Politics of Peoplehood

The Politics of Peoplehood

Partisanship by Invitation: Immigrants Respond to Political Campaigns

Liquid parties, dense populism

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