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On legitimacy and chronic crisis.
Benjamin Studebaker talks to Alex and Lee about his book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracy – and why the absence of the threat of revolution makes the crisis drag on.
What's wrong with 20th century accounts of legitimacy crises? What's changed?
Why is contemporary politics so stuck? Is it inescapable?
How does the breakdown of consensus make the emergence of a social majority so difficult?
Is there no common programme we can agree on, focused on bread-and-butter issues?
Do we need to stare despair in the face? Is catastrophe the only way out?
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Links:
Legitimacy in Liberal Democracy, Benjamin Studebaker, Edinburgh UP
UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Debilitated democracy: When the legs get ripped off, Dirk Jörke and Benjamin Studebaker, European Journal of Social Theory
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