Barnett, C. (2010)
Stokke, K. (2009)
absence of research on the parallel global spread and hegemony of liberal democracy during the last three decades. This ‘ghostly presence of democracy in geography’ was pointed out by Barnett and Low (2004: 1) five years ago. •
Staeheli, L. A. (2010)
Johnston, R. (1999)
• according to Arblaster (1996:9) ‘At the root of all definitions of democracy, however refined and complex, lies the idea of popular power, of a situation in which power, and perhaps authority too, rests with the people,’
One of democracy’s basic and continuing core ideas is ‘equal political rights for all’ (p. 25), though political equality is very difficult to achieve without economic and social equality too
• Three sets of institutional guarantees are necessary to such a liberal democracy according to Dahl (1978): 1 in the formulation of preferences, involving the freedoms to form and join organizations, of expression, of information, to compete for votes and to stand for public office; 2 in signifying preferences, through free and fair elections; and 3 in the equal weighting of preferences, and their relationship to policy-making
Rosenblatt, H. (2018)
Phillips, A. (1992).
• For many democrats, the decisive weakness of liberal democracy is the way it has restricted the scope and intensity of citizen engagement
• Even setting aside issues of gender and race, female unequal access to economic resources combines with their unequal access to knowledge, information and political skills to render us politically (not just socially) unequal
problems relate to the sexual division of labour in production and reproduction and will only be finally resolved when men and women share equally in the full range of paid and unpaid work
Mouffe, C. (1995).
communitarian thinkers have criticized the disintegration of social bonds and the growing anomie which has accompanied the dominance of the liberal view;
• main problem in the attempt by many communitarians to recreate a ‘gemeinschaft’ type of community is that such a view is clearly premodern and incompatible with the pluralism that is constitutive of modern democracy
• allegiance to liberal democratic institutions requires that the individuals living in those societies value the identity and the form of life that liberal democratic institutions make possible
Miller, D. (1992)
• Liberal democracy may be taken to refer to the set of institutions - free elections, competing parties, freedom of speech
liberal view, the aim of democracy is to aggregate individual preferences into a collective choice in as fair and efficient a way as possible
• Deliberative democracy- a person’s capacity to be swayed by rational arguments and to lay aside particular interests and opinions in deference to overall fairness and the common interest of the collectivity. It supposes people to be to some degree communally orientated in their outlook.
• liberal democratic procedures are themselves vulnerable to political manipulation. ie Populism
Barbero, I. (2012)
Desforges, Jones, and Woods, 2005
“hollowing out”—and subsequent “filling in” (Jones et al., 2005)—of the state in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries can be identified with a weakening of the conventional association of citizenship with the nation-state (Kurtz & Hankins, 2005)
guard against crime, community initiatives to provide or support education, social housing and welfare provision outside the state sector, and the promotion of community-led action for economic regeneration
• Historically, citizenship was a mark of belonging and commitment to a specific place
• In an increasingly cosmopolitan and globalised world, new transnational citizenships are emerging based on ethnic, cultural or religious identities and promoted by diasporic communities or faith groups
• Members of diasporic communities, for example, frequently adhere to ideas of both national and transnational citizenship
• Bounded spaces, such as nation-states, also distort the relational spaces of topological connections in important ways.
Gaskell, C. 2008
Smith, Organ, and Near, 1983
Coates, and Garmany, 2017
Gray, and Griffin, (2013).
• The British Citizenship Test was introduced in 2005
-relationship between citizenship and immigration, with many pointing out that a significant dilemma facing many modern states is the need for migration to meet labour needs, amid concerns about integration and social cohesion
-UK government (under New Labour) introduced mandatory citizenship tests, in which migrants are required to demonstrate that they have ‘sufficient knowledge of English, Welsh or Scots Gaelic’ and ‘sufficient knowledge about life in the United Kingdom’ before being granted citizenship (Home Office, 2002).
• For some, identity is central to understanding how people experience their rights and obligations, whether they participate, in what form, and why
• Central to these debates is the recognition that identity (much like citizenship) is an ‘essentially contested construct’
• It is argued that knowledge of the English language and UK life will allow citizens to engage in public life and accept their citizen responsibilities
Staeheli, L. (2011)-Citizenship school and SA
• citizenship is multifaceted
- border controls are part of a larger dynamic of exclusion and ‘othering’ that is integral to nation states and the ways that citizenship is often imagined and reinforced through discourses of fear
- process of bordering requires that citizens and their others are put into a relation
• The school, thus, extends beyond the physical structure to encompass cultural and political practices by which citizens-in-themaking are managed, disciplined, and enabled
• The cosmopolitan citizenship promoted in South Africa, for example, serves to advance the idea that post-apartheid South Africa is part of the global community of nations, and that citizenship is based on a commitment to human rights for all
• experience of citizenship varies dramatically for elite migrants as compared to refugees, many of whom live ‘illegally’ in African cities
• Meanwhile, refugees, labour-force migrants and less privileged migrants live in suspended spaces of citizenship in which neither cosmopolitan nor national citizenship seem relevant.
Abizadeh, A. (2012)- Cultural nation
Nili, S. (2017) Democracy and the boundary problem
Song, S. (2012) Democracy and the demos
Rickard, S.J., 2016-brexit and populism
• Brexit is viewed by many as a triumph of populism. “Populist anger against the established political order finally boiled over” (Yardley, 2016).
$350million a week to the NHS-Polling shows it was the single most remembered figure from the campaign (BBC News, 2016).
Since 2007, the average British worker experienced a 10 percent decrease in their real wages (OECD, 2016).
Piketty 2016; -brexit
some of the longue durée conditions for the moment of Brexit have to do with the deep processes of globalization and Europeanization
Dennison and Carl 2016-brexit
British people are the least likely of all twenty-eight EU member states to identify as “European”
Dodd 2016-brexit
a reported 42 percent increase in recorded hate crimes in the week before and after the vote, while the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council stated, “Some people felt [Brexit] gave license to vent [racist] views or behaviour”
Goodwin, M.J. and Heath, O., 2016-populism
Müller, J. W. (2015) -populism
• Populism said to be driven by ‘fear’ (of modernisation, globalisation, etcetera) or – most frequently – ‘resentment’
• populists are not simply antielitist: they are also necessarily anti-pluralist
- the people themselves’ constitute a merely hypothetical entity existing outside of democratic procedures, a homogeneous body that can be played off against actual election results.