Overview
- First book to combine law, political science and philosophy in the field of militant democracy
- Militant democracy is a highly current topic, with developments in EU, Turkey, Russia and the US
- Written by well-known experts in their respective fields (law, political science, and philosophy) having written on militant democracy before
- Discusses the justifications, effectiveness and legal implications of militant democracy
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 7)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political Science
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Philosophical justification for militant democracy
- Political-philosophical justification for militant democracy
- Legal implications of militant democracy
- Militant democracy
- Religious freedom
- Types of militant democracy
- Banning of antidemocratic parties
- Combatting right-wing extremism
- Political science and philosophy
- Right-wing populism and extremism in the democracies of the EU
- Threats to democracy
- democracy
About this book
This volume offers an up-to-date overview of the much-debated issue of how a democracy may defend itself against those who want to subvert it. The justifications, effectiveness and legal implications of militant democracy are discussed by addressing questions as: How can militant democracy measures such as party bans be justified? Why is it that some democracies ban antidemocratic parties? Does militant democracy succeed in combatting right-wing extremism? And is militant democracy evolving into an internationalized legal and political concept?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. dr. Afshin Ellian (1966) is Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University. He received his PhD in 2003 at Tilburg University with a dissertation on the democratic transition of South Africa. Ellian wrote extensively on topics within legal and political philosophy, such as: religious extremism, the state of exception, militant democracy and (counter)terrorism. His latest publications are Freedom of Speech under Attack, edited with Gelijn Molier (Eleven Publishing, 2015), and Legaliteit en Legitimiteit: de grondslagen van het recht (Legality and Legitimacy: the foundations of law), co-authored with Paul Cliteur (Leiden University Press, 2016). His op-eds were published in leading Dutch newspapers such as NRC Handelsblad and international titles as The Wall Street Journal and Le Figaro.
Bastiaan Rijpkema PhD (1987) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Jurisprudence at Leiden University. He received his LL.B. in Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2010) and his LL.M. in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (cum laude) from Leiden University (2011). In 2015 he obtained his PhD at Leiden University with a dissertation on militant democracy. His main interests lie in the fields of legal and political philosophy, especially democracy, extremism and free speech. In 2014 he co-authored a new edition of the 1936 inaugural lecture of Amsterdam constitutional scholar George van den Bergh on antidemocratic parties (Elsevier Books), for which he wrote an extensive introduction. His dissertation was published as Weerbare democratie: de grenzen van democratische tolerantie (Militant Democracy: The Limits of Democratic Tolerance) and was reviewed in major Dutch and Belgian newspapers. Rijpkema is a regular commentator on politics for the Dutch Radio 1 and published several op-eds on national and international politics. He is also frequently invited for expert meetings held by the Dutch government, for instance with Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher and the Dutch Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Militant Democracy – Political Science, Law and Philosophy
Editors: Afshin Ellian, Bastiaan Rijpkema
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97004-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97003-5Published: 27 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97004-2Published: 15 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 193
Topics: Political Philosophy, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Philosophy of Law, Democracy