Search results for "Political theory"

Desafíos para el mantenimiento de una esfera pública democrática en la sociedad digital

2023

El presente trabajo se propone analizar cómo el creciente protagonismo de las redes sociales en el debate público puede implicar –de forma contraintiutiva- serios riesgos para la construcción y el mantenimiento de una esfera pública democrática. Para ello, en primer lugar, se identificarán las que hasta ahora han sido consideradas como características esenciales de una esfera pública democrática, exponiendo cómo dichas características han sido reconocidas y protegidas en los ordenamientos jurídicos –tomando como referencia el ordenamiento jurídico español. Enumeradas estas características, el trabajo analiza cómo la dinámica de las redes sociales puede poner en jaque cada una de ellas. Pres…

Game Theory and Mutual Beliefs

1995

Conventional facts are based on mutual beliefs which work as reasons for actions. The question remaining is: How can other peoples’ beliefs in something, which leads them to act accordingly, be a reason for someone else acting in a similar way? What is the compelling force of conventional facts noticed by Durkheim?

Political Action Beyond Resistance: Arendt and "Revolutionary Spirit" in Egypt

2016

The article examines what it calls the "politics-as-resistance" frame in contemporary political theory, originating in the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. This way of organizing political experience is contrasted with Hannah Arendt's political thought, particularly her writings on revolutionary action. Arendt's often overlooked – and partly unpublished – passages on virtù and fortuna are further suggested as important additions to her thinking on action. I argue that Arendt's "world-centric" approach can illuminate certain aspects of political experience that remain dimmed in the more subject-oriented politics-as-resistance frame. Particular focus is paid to the austere notion o…

L’invention morale et la sagesse pratique. Une lecture de la petite éthique de Paul Ricoeur

2020

La petite éthique ricœurienne bouleverse les présentations classiques des différentes éthiques en raison de la place qu’elle donne à l’imagination morale. Difficilement classable dans le panorama des éthiques contemporaine, le projet ricœurien valorise le pluralisme des traditions morales comme des précompréhensions pratiques tout en donnant à la créativité pratique une place de choix. Cette tension des traditions et de l’imagination éthique donne à sa sagesse pratique un caractère dynamique et heuristique. Montrant la fécondité de cette sagesse à l’heure des sociétés marquées par le pluralisme et la complexité, cet article en déploie la portée pratique. Il retient tout d’abord l’analyse de…

Democracy in Constituent Moments: Exploring the Spanish Constitutional Debate of 1931 through Political Theory and Conceptual History

2019

This paper aims to answer the question of why constituent moments are relevant to political theory. It hypothesises the Spanish constitutional debate of 1931 as a case of conceptual innovation in parliamentary politics by arguing that debates in constituent moments entail a special kind of parliamentary argumentation when new political regimes are established. There, all sorts of theoretical, normative, historical, and institutional aspects are discussed to deliberate on the future character and functioning of a political regime. From a methodological point of view, this analysis draws on the revision of arguments and political terms used by MPs during the Spanish constituent assembly of 19…

The Role of Professors in the Formation of Finnish Parliamentary Life: The Struggle between Two Conceptions of Parliament

2017

The Frankfurt Parliament (1848–49) was subsequently dismissively referred to as the “Professors’ Parliament” due to its heavy representation of scholars and the academic style of its lengthy discussions. Professors have played a prominent role in the deliberations and development of other European assemblies, too. This article examines the role of professors in the formation of Finnish parliamentary life. It moreover underlines the close relationship between the academia and national politics in late nineteenth-century Finland, starting from the European revolutions of 1848. The article highlights how politically active professors, together with the newspaper press, were crucial in transfe…

'The Ideological Framework of the French Nouvelle Droite and the Contemporary Finnish Far Right'

2015

This article deals with the xenophobic discourse of contemporary Finnish anti-immigrationists, namely the anti-immigration faction of the Perussuomalaiset party and its 'metapolitical' background organisation - Suomen Sisu. It focuses on two main themes - differentialism and anti-egalitarianism - as they have been conceptualised by the French Nouvelle Droite (ND) and the European New Right. Because these themes have been used to serve a variety of anti-immigration movements and parties within Europe, the article examines whether the selective reception of differentialism and anti-egalitarianism have a part to play in the xenophobic discourse within Finnish politics as well. The Finnish anti…

Paradigms for Political Action. A Draft for a Repertoire

2022

Whether politics is a separate sphere or an aspect of human action is a subject of academic controversy. I focus here on the political aspect of action, which is not exclusive of other aspects. There are no ‘naturally political’ issues nor is there anything completely devoid of a political aspect. I am now taking a step backwards to discuss the seemingly simple ‘political or not’ question, as compared to the ‘political in which sense’ question, which I have discussed elsewhere. In this article, I stay on the ideal–typical level, as I want to discuss alternative ways of marking the criteria for the political aspect, without discussing the views of other scholars in detail. I call the procedu…

American political poetry from Whitman to 9/11

2012

The Temptation of Populism in David Cameron’s Leadership Style

2015

DOI: 10.1057/9781137439246\₁0; International audience; It may seem unusual to associate the widely-used concept of populism with the leadership of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron. Populism is, however, open to various interpretations and definitions and so easy to manipulate that it could apply to almost anything. Moreover, populism has so often been used to describe movements and groups critical of representative democracy, generating a ‘malaise’ (Mény and Surel, 2002: 21) or a ‘threat’ to democracy (Mudde and Kaltwasser, 2012), that it is has become difficult to conceive it as a new political practice in the hands of democratic governments. To accept what would appear to be a co…