As a major critic of parliamentary democracy, Charles Maurras« Provençal roots and his »organizing empiricism" fueled his contestation of the republican regime in the name of living communities.
Liberals have always been suspicious of unlimited forms of power, whether monarchical, revolutionary or democratic. They have been the most vigorous advocates of the strict limitation of power, whoever holds it and however it is organized.
Since the French Revolution, democracy has often been contested in its representative form, and has never completely erased the authoritarian aspirations of certain schools of thought. Yet direct democracy has not escaped criticism.
Traveling through eight American states, four of our media editors explored what the USA and Switzerland, sister republics with cross-fertilizing democratic influences, still have to say to each other at a time of trade war launched by Donald Trump
The Iran-Israel crisis has revived an old Western temptation: regime change. The illusion of immediate political transformation, however, runs up against the fact that regimes come and go, while peoples, their history and culture remain.
As debate becomes polarized and personal, Antoine Vuille defends the importance of rigorous argumentation. The philosopher invites us to avoid the vices that weaken the exchange of ideas in a democracy, not without avoiding a few vexing questions.
L’association est un remède au repli sur soi dans les régimes démocratiques, où s’amenuit la dépendance à autrui qui prévalait dans les régimes féodaux. Elle permet également à ses membres de s'engager au-delà de leur intérêt personnel sans passer par l'Etat.
L'avènement de la modernité a profondément transformé la pensée politique. L’idée d’une détermination divine de l’ordre politique ayant disparu, la question de la légitimité de toute organisation politique de la société est devenue centrale.
Même au sein d’une institution en théorie démocratique, l’Union européenne, la démocratie directe ne manque pas d’ennemis, selon Ghislain Benhessa. Entretien avec l’avocat strasbourgeois au sujet de son dernier essai, «Le référendum impossible».
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