Legitimate Opposition

Across the globe, legitimate opposition is menaced by populists and autocrats. This book offers the first theory of legitimate opposition in fifty years. Marshalling normative arguments and a revisionist reconstruction of opposition's history, Kirshner's timely book demonstrates why even imperfect and unequal systems of legitimate opposition merit active defense.

About the author

Alexander S. Kirshner is an associate professor of political science at Duke University, where he concentrates on democratic theory. He is the author of A Theory of Militant Democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander S. Kirshner, Kirshner Alexander S.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780300243468
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24346-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / World, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political structures: democracy, General and world history, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms