In the Joy of Politics I asked whether politics as I had defined it, “legitimate collective decision-making,” after the Australian political scientist Kenneth Minogue, had to be democratic, and whether democracy as a legitimate form of politics, if not the only, had to be liberal. The key issue, as I saw it, and which I … More Illiberalism and legitimacy
New from Oxford University Press — Reforming Democracy. When, why, and how are democratic institutions reformed? This is the broad question guiding this research, rooted in a context of crises of representative democracy. Core democratic rules can be understood as the formal political rules regulating the direct relationship between elites within the political system, parties, … More Why democratic systems change
Presidential elections were held in South Korea in May 2017, in which Moon Jae-in emerged victorious in one round of first past the post voting. The outgoing president, Park Geun-hye, was impeached by the national legislature in December 2016; this decision was upheld by the Korean Constitutional Court in March 2017. It has been reported … More Design digest: presidential election, South Korea
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