Militant Democracy The Limits of Democratic Tolerance

The book posits a theory of militant democracy. Drawing on Karl Popper and Dutch legal scholar George Van den Bergh, it examines the reasons for justifying legal action against extremist parties and develops a new theory of democratic self-correction.

About the author

Bastiaan R. Rijpkema is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He received his LLB in Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2010) and his LLM 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, which was published in Dutch as Weerbare democratie: de grenzen van democratische tolerantie (Nieuw Amsterdam, 2015). For Weerbare democratie he was awarded the prize for the best Dutch political book of the year in 2016, the Prinsjesboekenprijs. In 2017 he won the New Scientist Wetenschapstalentprijs 2017 (New Scientist Science Talent Prize), the prize for the most talented young researcher of the Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch-speaking Belgium).

Summary

The book posits a theory of militant democracy. Drawing on Karl Popper and Dutch legal scholar George Van den Bergh, it examines the reasons for justifying legal action against extremist parties and develops a new theory of democratic self-correction.

Product details

• Authors: Bastiaan Rijpkema
• Assisted by: Anna Asbury (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781138542969
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54296-9
• Pages: 242
• Series: Extremism and Democracy; Extremism and Democracy; Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Theo van Gogh, Political party, Political science and theory, Constitutional Theory, political institutions, Political structures / systems: democracy, Free democratic basic order, inaugural lecture, militant democracy, Vice Versa, democratic resilience, Enabling Act, hizb ut tahrir, Democratic Tolerance, party prohibition, anti-extremism measures, legal frameworks for self-defence, judicial safeguards, Supranational Oversight, Antidemocratic Parties, party bans, Self-corrective Mechanism, Free Mandate, Zwarte Piet, Democratic Costs, Public Prosecution Service, Enlightened Despot, Substantive Democracy, Refah Case, Fundamental Democratic Principles, Pragmatic Objections, Self-corrective Capacity, United Communist Party, Eternity Clause