Militant Democracy and Its Critics: Populism, Parties, Extremism

• The first edited collection to boast an international group of political scientists, legal scholars and philosophers debating the urgent question of how to combat anti-democratic extremism
• Asks whether it is permissable for representative governments to restrict the democratic rights of their extremist opponents
• Argues both for and against militant democracy – policies that pre-emptively restrict the rights of antidemocratic movements

Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail rights of participation be consistent with democratic values? In this collection of essays, scholars from across politics, philosophy and law address the unresolved practical and theoretical questions concerning democracy and extremism. The collection provides an update to a key contemporary debate in democratic theory and asks us to reconsider the potential promise and costs of militant democracy.

Damkjær Anne Barsøe, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford, UK

Alexander Kirshner, Duke University, USA

Anthoula Malkopoulou, Uppsala University, Sweden

Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University, USA

Ludvig Norman, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

Bastiaan Rijpkema, Leiden University, Netherlands

Rovira Cristòbal Kaltwasser, Diego Portales University, Chile

Stefan Rummens, KU Leuven, Belgium

András Sajó, Central European University, Hungary

Peter Stone, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Svetlana Tyulkina, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia

Vincents Tore Olsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark