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Current Trajectories of Democracy – Diagnosis, Implications, Proposals
Author(s) -
Anheier Helmut K.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12219
Subject(s) - democracy , autocracy , political economy , politics , political science , state (computer science) , mainstream , development economics , sociology , economics , law , algorithm , computer science
There is agreement across the various contributions to the special issue that the state of democratic systems has deteriorated – not only in Europe but also in the United States. Of course, attention must be paid to the different contexts, reasons and the degrees to which democracies are experiences a period of unease. There is also agreement as to the necessity of national democracies ‐ and the EU as a supranational political actor ‐ to re‐think current practices and to allow for a new democratic ethos that gives greater room for contestation.