The Freedom House Survey for 2018: Democracy in Retreat

Schenkkan, Nate; Repucci, Sarah

doi:10.1353/jod.2019.0028

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“…Under the current wave of globalization, democratic governments are appeared to facilitate internet infrastructure as a global public good (Momen, 2020). Human rights activists have been arguing on various international platforms that internet shutdown is a grave threat to the consolidation of democracy (Nate and Sarah, 2019). There have been big debates and discussions that have taken place among the international community to protect and promote the rights of the citizens on the internet.…”

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Mediated democracy and internet shutdown in India

Momen

Harsha

Das

2020

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Purpose This paper aims to highlight the very recent cases of internet shutdown during the creation of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and enactment of Citizenship Amendment Act and the detention under Section 66 (A) of Information Technology Act 2000. Design/methodology/approach This study takes up a broad explorative discussion of the challenges posed to the consolidation of democracy in India due to frequent internet shutdowns for online communication and social media usages. Findings As findings, it is narrated that due to politically motivated reasons, India compromises its commitment to the pluralism and diversity in views, in particular, individual rights to freedom of expression and opinion, enshrined in the constitution. Originality/value Right to freedom of speech and expression has now taken a new shape due to the emergence and availability of the internet that enriches the quality of democracy.

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Mediated democracy and internet shutdown in India

Momen

Harsha

Das

2020

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“…Instead of a greater reliance on reason and continued political convergence, the 2010s brought populism and a nationalist turn. Across the world, liberal democracies have been in retreat since 2005 (Schenkkan and Repucci, 2019).…”

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A liberal stand-off with deplorables: Adapting Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People from Nietzscheanism through Nazism to Neoliberalism

Larsen

2022

Journal of European Studies

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A pivotal question since the Enlightenment has been how to promote reason to the masses. Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and its film adaptations across four countries and seven decades let us examine this discourse across time and geography. Ibsen offers Nietzschean, elitist radicalism to save the public sphere from ignorance. Ein Volksfeind (dir. Hans Steinhoff) insists that only the Nazi Party can straighten out the confused masses. A 1978 version from a screenplay by Arthur Miller (dir. George Schaefer) makes Steve McQueen a hero-martyr for grassroots democracy, while Ganashatru (dir. Satyajit Ray) challenges Eurocentric logocentricity through ‘empathetic humanism’. Norwegian En folkefiende (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg) declares that in the neoliberal era, people’s resistance to reason threatens our species’ very survival. Such despondency informs today’s populism and democratic apathy, suggesting that humanistic beliefs may have played themselves out and that a new master-narrative could be required to break our twenty-first-century stand-off. As voters are labelled ‘deplorables’ and journalists ‘enemies of the people’, Ibsen’s play has also experienced a renaissance.

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“…Many developed democracies are already under stress [16][17][18] . Democratic institutions such as free press and fair elections have been under attack since the onset of the global financial crisis 16 . Trust in these institutions is declining in some developed democracies, especially among youth 17,19 .…”

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