How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not shar

This book aims to present a comprehensive theory of militant democracy and to answer questions such as: How can a democracy protect itself against its own downf

This book is a collection of contributions by leading scholars on theoretical and contemporary problems of militant democracy. The term 'militant democracy' was

Can defensive efforts that curtail rights of participation of antidemocratic movements be consistent with democratic values? In this collection of essays, schol

The term ‘militant democracy’ was coined by Karl Loewenstein in the 1930s. He argued that attempts to establish democracy in the Weimar Republic failed due