What Crisis? Whose Crisis? Which Crisis?
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 276
ISSN: 0032-3179
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 276
ISSN: 0032-3179
In: Contributions to the history of concepts, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 12-28
ISSN: 1874-656X
Crisis has become such a ubiquitous word that its discriminatory power is diminished
across various disciplines. It challenges the word-concept relationship
inasmuch as it is associated with a host of partner words that imbue crisis
with divergent meanings. Not least, it stretches between major upheavals and
minor disturbances, often employed with calculating or rhetorical dramatic
effect. This article explores both professional and vernacular usages of "crisis"
and notes the distinction between theories of crisis and ideologies of crisis.
It then turns to examining two domains closely linked to the language of
crisis: Marxist analyses of capitalism, and legitimation problems. The latter is
explored particularly through Seymour Martin Lipset and Jürgen Habermas.
The role of crisis as filtered through different ideological families is indicated.
Finally, the relationship between the tipping-point connotations of crisis and
the finality drive of political decisions is considered.
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 58, Heft Jul-Sep 87
ISSN: 0032-3179
Gives a possible historical account from 2035 of the disintegration of the systems of welfarism and social security, due to the halt in growth during the 1970's and 1980's and the supposed crash of the world banking system in 1988 through Third World countries defaulting on their loans. (DCL)
In: The political quarterly, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 276-282
ISSN: 1467-923X
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ISSN: 1746-6067
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ISSN: 2308-5142
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ISSN: 0043-9134
World Affairs Online
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ISSN: 1744-540X
In: Political studies review, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 46-58
ISSN: 1478-9302
For a movement that emerged to spotlight the crisis of liberal democracy, it did not take long for the Occupy Movement to find itself embroiled in its own democratic crisis. Occupy's story has exposed just how central or constitutive crises are to democracy. But is crisis such a deleterious thing? Though scholars of democracy have customarily given it a bad name, should we consider democracies to be in trouble when they are met with crisis, when they themselves create a crisis? According to the three volumes reviewed in this article, crises can have the potential to hamper and destroy democracies, but they can also possess the uncanny capacity to reinvigorate them. For scholars of democracy - whether they choose to define 'democracy' using a liberal, participatory, deliberative, or some other paradigm - it is perhaps this latter interpretation of crisis that may provide the best way to grapple with what comes next for democracy post-Occupy. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political studies review, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 46-58
ISSN: 1478-9302
For a movement that emerged to spotlight the crisis of liberal democracy, it did not take long for the Occupy Movement to find itself embroiled in its own democratic crisis. Occupy's story has exposed just how central or constitutive crises are to democracy. But is crisis such a deleterious thing? Though scholars of democracy have customarily given it a bad name, should we consider democracies to be in trouble when they are met with crisis, when they themselves create a crisis? According to the three volumes reviewed in this article, crises can have the potential to hamper and destroy democracies, but they can also possess the uncanny capacity to reinvigorate them. For scholars of democracy – whether they choose to define 'democracy' using a liberal, participatory, deliberative, or some other paradigm – it is perhaps this latter interpretation of crisis that may provide the best way to grapple with what comes next for democracy post-Occupy.