Kivotidis, Dimitrios. 2024. The Dialectics of Democracy: Towards a Socialist Constitutionalism. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367429720 [Book]

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This book examines how the democratic form and the struggle for democracy reflects, influences and shapes the struggle for social emancipation.

In the context of increased exploitation, rising inequality, and intensified struggle for social justice in the aftermath of the economic crisis, the channelling of populism through liberal democratic institutions has had contradictory effects: giving rise to both Corbyn and Brexit, Sanders and Trump, Syriza and the Golden Dawn, to name but a few. How can we make sense of these developments? In response, this book approaches the idea of democracy from a socialist constitutionalist standpoint and explores institutional forms and principles that challenge and aim at the transformation of the extant social order. This process involves the challenging of well-established ideas of the liberal viewpoint, as well as an unwavering focus on the issue of class rule which enables the highlighting of limitations of -not only mainstream but also heterodox- contemporary approaches to constitutionalism and democracy. Ultimately, democracy is conceived as a process of struggle for creating the conditions, material as well as intellectual, for its actualisation.

This significant work of legal and political theory will be of considerable interest to those working in these areas to make sense of contemporary developments, and to further the causes of social justice and social emancipation.

Item Type:	Book
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032710884
Additional Information:	"This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Dialectics of Democracy: Towards a Socialist Constitutionalism on 5 March 2024, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Dialectics-of-Democracy-Towards-a-Socialist-Constitutionalism/Kivotidis/p/book/9780367429720. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way."
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Law
Date:	5 March 2024
Item ID:	34512
Date Deposited:	14 Dec 2023 16:25
Last Modified:	03 May 2024 15:33
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34512

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