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Liberal Disorder, States of Exception, and Populist Politics book cover

1st Edition

Liberal Disorder, States of Exception, and Populist Politics

Edited By Valur Ingimundarson, Sveinn Jóhannesson Copyright 2021
242 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order. Over the last decade, liberal democracy has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. In response to seemingly endless crisis conditions, governments have turned with alarming frequency to extraordinary emergency powers derogating the... Read more

Introduction

Valur Ingimundarson and Sveinn M. Jóhannesson

Part I Liberal Democracy and the Use of Exceptional Powers

1. Carl Schmitt’s Conception of Sovereignty, the UN Security Council, and the Instrumentalization of the "State of Exception"

Hans Köchler

2. Right, Might and Technopolitics: The Problem of Republican Dictatorship from James Harrington to James Madison

Sveinn M. Jóhannesson

3. Exception as Alibi: Rhetorics of Emergency and Bare Life in the War on Terror

Alexandra S. Moore

4. Tactics of Battle, Strategies of State: Hurricane Katrina and the Counterterror Exception

Jennifer N. Ross

5. Exceptional Biometrics

Peter Hitchcock

Part II The Liberal State: Populist, Authoritarian, and Corporate Challenges

6. A Theory of Populist Democracy

Nadia Urbinati

7. The Populist Right: Anti-Liberal Politics and Conservative Temptations

Valur Ingimundarson

8. Public Engagement: An Outline of a Critical Conception

Jón Ólafsson

9. Corporatism and Economic Performance

Juan Vicente Sola and Gylfi Zoega

Biography

Valur Ingimundarson is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Iceland and Chair of the Board of the EDDA Research Center.

Sveinn M. Jóhannesson is Fennell Early Career Research Fellow in American History at the University of Edinburgh and teaches at the University of Iceland.

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