This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic institutions from within. This compilation of essays provides the first historical exploration of how democracies have dealt with such anti-democratic forces in their midst and how this impacted upon what democracy meant to all involved. From its inception in the nineteenth century, modern democratic politics has included fundamental debates over whether it is undemocratic and dangerous to ban parties with anti-democratic objectives and whether democracies should defend themselves, if necessary with violence, against perceived anti-democratic forces. This volume shows that implicit conceptions of democracy and democratic repertoires become explicit, fluid, and contested throughout these confrontations, not only within democratic parties, but also among their adversaries. Both sides have, at times, used force or limited the expression of ideas, thus blurring the lines between who is democratic and who is not.
Author(s): Joost Augusteijn, Constant Hijzen, de Vries, Mark Leon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 300
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Democracy, the Nation State, and Their Adversaries (Joost Augusteijn, Constant Hijzen, Mark Leon de Vries)....Pages 3-15
Front Matter ....Pages 17-18
‘… a Wretched, Down Trodden and Impoverished People.’ Terrorism, Propaganda, and the Failure of Democracy in Post-Civil War Louisiana (Mark Leon de Vries)....Pages 19-43
Nazis, Violence and the State: Social Democratic Repertoire Discussions in Germany and the Netherlands Around 1930 (Kristian Mennen)....Pages 45-68
Democracy’s Various Defenders: The Struggle Against Political Extremism in the Netherlands, 1917–1940 (Joris Gijsenbergh)....Pages 69-98
Front Matter ....Pages 99-100
Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist–State Conflicts: The Debate on the Use of Violence Among Irish Nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid-1970s (Joost Augusteijn, Jacco Pekelder)....Pages 101-136
The Seeds of Danger: The Security Service and Its ‘Enemy Image’ of ‘The Movement’ in the 1980s (Constant Hijzen)....Pages 137-164
(In)Effectiveness of Social Movements in Turkish Democracy: Institutional and Non-institutional Cases (Yavuz Yildirim)....Pages 165-188
Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demonstrations of 1995–1997 (Miina Kaarkoski)....Pages 189-211
Front Matter ....Pages 213-214
Displaced Without Moving: Loyalism and Democratic Haunting in Northern Ireland (Henrik Vigh)....Pages 215-235
Between Democracy and Autocracy: Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Incomplete Secession, the Case of Moldova-Transnistria (Ana Maria Albulescu)....Pages 237-251
Fragmented Democracy in Dayton’s Bosnia Herzegovina: Institutions, Political Elite and Youth (Arianna Piacentini)....Pages 253-277
Front Matter ....Pages 279-279
Concluding Remarks (Joost Augusteijn, Constant Hijzen, Mark Leon de Vries)....Pages 281-289
Back Matter ....Pages 291-297
