Populismus oder agonale Demokratie? Bruchlinien der theoretischen Symbiose von Laclau und Mouffe

Hildebrand, Marius; Séville, Astrid

doi:10.5771/0032-3470-2015-1-27

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“…In this regard, Mouffe's perspective on democracy is much more compelling, because in contrast to Laclau's more formalist analysis, she is interested in ethical resources and basic institutional rules of functioning democratic societies (Hildebrand and Se´ville, 2015). She suggests that the impossibility of a complete identity of the people with itself should actually be recognized by all participants of a political contest, because '[l]iberal democracy is precisely the recognition of this constitutive gap between the people and its various identifications' (Mouffe, 2000: 56).…”

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Agonistic democracy and constitutionalism in the age of populism

Michelsen

2019

European Journal of Political Theory

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The article examines the compatibility of agonistic democracy and populism as well as their relationship to the idea of constitutionalism. The first part shows that Chantal Mouffe’s recent attempts to reconcile her normative approach of an agonistic pluralism with a populist style of politics are not fully convincing. Although there are undeniable commonalities between an agonistic and a populist understanding of politics – the appreciation of conflict, the rejection of moralistic and juridical modes of conflict resolution etc. – the populist mode of the construction of the people (and the denunciation of political opponents as enemies of the people) risks impeding the transformation of antagonistic into agonistic modes of political contest. The tensions between agonism and populism are especially evident in matters of constitutionalism. This topic is examined in the second part of the article, which provides some ideas for reducing the normative and institutional blind spots of contemporary theories of agonistic democracy. It focuses on elementary principles for an agonistic concept of democratic constitutionalism that differs from the populist view of the relationship between politics and law, especially in respect of its interpretation of the concept of ‘resistibility’ of legal norms.

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Agonistic democracy and constitutionalism in the age of populism

Michelsen

2019

European Journal of Political Theory

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“…Chantal Mouffes Arbeiten haben die Politische Theorie der letzten Jahre maßgeblich beeinflusst und wurden unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten kontrovers diskutiert (vgl. Beckstein 2011;Flügel-Martinsen/Marchart 2014;Hildebrand/Séville 2015;Nonhoff 2007;Priester 2012). Gerade mit ihrem Ansatz der agonalen Demokratie hat sie einen zentralen Impuls für die Kritik an konsensorientierten, deliberativen Demokratietheorien gegeben (vgl.…”

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Chantal Mouffe und die Institutionenfrage

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2017

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Radikale Demokratietheorien gehören zu den meist diskutierten Ansätzen jüngerer Demokratietheorie. Eine ihrer zentralen VertreterInnen ist Chantal Mouffe. Sie plädiert für eine agonale Demokratietheorie und denkt das Politische als nicht zu befriedenden Konflikt. Institutionen in westlich-liberalen Demokratien sollen die Antagonismen in Agonismen transformieren. Jedoch bleibt bei Mouffe unklar, was sie unter Institutionen versteht, woraus sich eine Leerstelle in ihrem demokratietheoretischen Ansatz ergibt. Dadurch, dass Mouffe die institutionellen Arrangements nicht thematisiert, unterschätzt sie, den inhärent konflikthaften und agonalen Charakter von Institutionen. Mit Verweis auf die materialistische Staatstheorie wird aufgezeigt, wie sich diese Leerstelle in Mouffes Ansatz füllen und sich damit die Agonalität von Institutionen theoretisieren lässt.

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Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe

Hildebrand

Séville

2018

Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

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Populismus oder agonale Demokratie? Bruchlinien der theoretischen Symbiose von Laclau und Mouffe

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Agonistic democracy and constitutionalism in the age of populism

Agonistic democracy and constitutionalism in the age of populism

Chantal Mouffe und die Institutionenfrage

Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe

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