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Radicalisation of the British aristocracy : aristocratic decline, inter-war fascism and reactionary rhetoric
2008
The purpose of this study is to shed light on the relationship between the decline of British aristocracy and British inter-war fascism. It is argued that there was a link between the decline of aristocratic influence, achieved largely by political and legislative means, and the subsequent radicalisation of the aristocracy. Furthermore, the history and development of British fascism is examined especially in the aristocratic context, and the pre-war radical right groups are placed in the same continuum as the later actual fascist parties. The aristocratic rhetorical opposition to proposed reforms aimed at the democratisation of British politics is studied in the context of Albert Hirschman'…
Conflicting conceptualisations of ‘democracy’ in the German Bundestag during the anti-nuclear demonstrations, 1995-2001
2018
A vigorous anti-nuclear movement emerged in Germany in the mid 1990s, when spent nuclear fuel elements began to be transported to the interim storage facility in Gorleben, Lower Saxony. Resistance to nuclear transportation continued to grow in strength throughout the 1990s. The protests expressed people’s distrust and lack of confidence in political institutions and decision-making processes. In the German Bundestag, these events relating to Gorleben caused significant political struggles over the principles and meanings of German democracy. Parliamentarians voiced competing counterarguments about the legitimacy of these demonstrations, on the one hand, and the legitimacy of the nuclear ene…
Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demo…
2019
In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged conceptions of parliament’s task of representation, public debate and legitimate decision-making in different historical circumstances. One such crucial phase in re-evaluating and redefining conceptions of democracy in Germany was the second half of the 1990s, when a vigorous anti-nuclear movement arose. In the German federal parliament, members had to explain their understandings of German democracy. The tradition of liberal, representative democracy was in a conflict …
Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty
2021
The aim of this article is to read Rogues, in order to show that Derrida is neither a philosopher of democracy nor a critic of sovereignty , but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty. Taking my cue from his Aporias, I argue that democratic sovereignty is aporetically in excess over itself, for it is based on articulating the path through the im-possible passage from the unconditional injunction of the ‘promise’ to the exigency of sovereignty. That is why it can neither be absorbed into the conditions of any existing democracy nor abstracted into any pure identity of sovereignty. Political trends today fail in enduring the aprioricity of aporia, as neoliberals valorize the posited condi…
Freedom and its diachrony
2021
Probably everyone involved with the related disciplines in the humanities for some time knows how difficult it is to discuss about liberty and freedom beyond one’s area of expertize or the inclinat...
Millaista demokratiaa? : diskurssianalyysi tavoitellun kuntaliitoksen (Oulainen-Vihanti) keskusteluista vuosina 2011-2014
2014
Demokratian kehitys on huolestuttanut suomalaisia pitkään. Alenevat äänestysprosentit ja vaisu osallistuminen yhteisten asioiden hoitoon ovat saaneet aikaan sen, että Suomen valtiohallinnossa on paneuduttu voimakkaasti demokratian ongelmien kartoittamiseen ja suotuisan kehityksen aikaansaamiseen. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää kuntaliitosargumentaatiota vuosien 2011–2014 ajalta entisen Vihannin kunnan valtuuston pöytäkirjoista, paikallislehdistä ja kuntalaisten kommenteista sosiaalisessa mediassa. Ensiksi tarkastelun kohteena ovat argumentaatiot puolesta ja vastaan, kun kyseessä on Vihannin eteläosien liittäminen Oulaisten kaupunkiin. Toiseksi pureudutaan siihen, millaisena dem…
Democracy, political risks and stock market performance
2015
We study whether the emerging stock markets’ performance is affected by direct and indirect effects of democracy level and political risk. We argue that the relationship between democracy level and the political risk is parabolic instead of a simple linear relation i.e. there exists a limit in democracy after which the political risk begins to decline and this is reflected in stock prices. Using panel data for 38 emerging markets at yearly frequency and controlling for several domestic and international factors, we find a fairly robust evidence that during the period 2000-2010, this relationship is true and after some threshold, the more democratic countries produce higher returns. Similar …
Jako kahteen: Populismi kansan tekijänä ja demokratian peilinä. Ernesto Laclaun populismiteorian tarkastelua
2015
Kuntapoliittiseen Facebook-ryhmään osallistuminen : syyt, tavat ja vuorovaikutuksen piirteet
2016
Tässä puheviestinnän pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkasteltiin yhteiskunnallista aktiivisuutta kuntapoliittisessa Facebook-ryhmässä. Tutkielman tavoitteena oli kuvata ja ymmärtää ajankohtaisen ja aktiivisen kansalaisosallistumisen teknologisen muodon, kuntapoliittisen Facebook-ryhmän vuorovaikutuksen ominaispiirteitä. Tavoitteeseen pyrittiin kysymällä kuntapoliittisen Facebook-ryhmän jäseniltä, minkä takia vuorovaikutukseen osallistutaan ja miten. Saadulla tiedolla pyrittiin myös käsitykseen siitä, miten deliberatiivisen demokratian ihannepiirteet toteutuvat tässä vapaamuotoisessa kansalaisosallistumisen muodossa. Kyseinen Facebook-ryhmä oli tutkielman kohteena erityisen kiinnostava teknologiav…
Internet on epäreilu, mutta näin uutismedia sinnittelee
2021
Arvio teoksesta: Hindman, Matthew. 2019. Internet-ansa: Kuinka digitaalinen talous synnyttää monopoleja ja rapauttaa demokratiaa. Suomentanut Kimmo Pietiläinen. [Alkuperäisteos: The Internet Trap, How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy, 2018]. Helsinki: Terra Cognita, 274 s.