Democratic respect : populism, resentment, and the struggle for recognition / Christian F. Rostbøll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rostbøll, Christian F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Populism.

Democracy.

Political participaton.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Commentators often interpret the resentment of supporters of populism as blindly emotional and unconnected to facts and principles. Democratic Respect argues instead that we should approach the populist politics of resentment as a struggle for recognition based on moral experiences that are intimately connected to people's factual and moral beliefs. By associating populist resentment with alleged violations of democratic principles, we can discuss what citizens and governments owe one another in terms of recognition and respect. Populism advances a unique interpretation of democracy and recognition, which Rostb©ıll confronts with the notion of democratic respect. How democracy should recognize the people is shown to be connected to debates over the meaning and value of democratic procedures, rights, majority rule, compromise, and public deliberation. The book builds a bridge between empirical research and philosophical analysis, while providing insights relevant to a public grappling with the challenges many democracies face today.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Recognition of the People

I.1 Populism as a Set of Claims

I.1.1 Populism on the Left and Right

I.2 Overview of the Book

1 Recognition and the Politics of Resentment

1.1 Populism as a Struggle for Recognition

1.1.1 Recognition, Social Change, and Political Struggle

1.1.2 An Identity Politics of the Right

1.2 Reactive Attitudes and Principle-Dependent Feelings

1.2.1 Principle-Dependent Feelings

1.2.2 Resentment as a Democratic Sentiment

1.3 The Participant Attitude

1.3.1 Charity, Respect, and Racial Resentment

1.4 Pragmatic versus Moral Responses

2 Respect, Esteem, and Solidarity

2.1 Respect versus Esteem

2.1.1 Kant and Dignity Respect

2.1.2 The Good, the Right, and Toleration

2.2 Honor Respect

2.2.1 Democratizing Honor

2.3 Democratic Respect in the Real Word Requires Solidarity

2.3.1 Inequality of Esteem and Solidarity

2.3.2 Solidarity as Active Inclusion

2.4 Democratic Solidarity

2.4.1 The Priority of Democratic Solidarity over Partisan Solidarity

3 Rights and the Populist Claim for Recognition

3.1 The Populist Claim for Recognition

3.2 Protecting "the People's" Way of Life

3.3 How Rights Provide for Respect

3.3.1 Respecting People's Way of Life

3.3.2 Rights and the Participant Attitude

3.4 The Question of Anti-Populism

4 Procedures, Outcomes, or Identification?

4.1 Procedure and Substance in Populism

4.1.1 Procedural versus Substantive Theories of Democracy

4.1.2 Populism between Procedure and Substance

4.2 Recognition through Procedures, Outcomes, or Identification

4.2.1 The Demand for Recognition in Politics

4.2.2 Three Kinds of Political Recognition

4.2.3 Procedural Respect versus Correspondence.

4.2.4 Identification beyond Procedures

4.3 Minimal versus Expansive Understandings of Democratic Procedures

4.3.1 Proceduralizing Popular Sovereignty

4.4 Outcomes Should Respect Procedures

5 Respecting Disagreement

5.1 Majority Rule between Acclamation, Aggregation, and Deliberation

5.1.1 Rousseau versus Populism

5.1.2 Fair Proceduralism and Equal Respect

5.1.3 Acclamation versus Aggregation

5.1.4 Aggregation and Deliberation

5.1.5 The Principle of Majority Rule over Time

5.2 Compromise, Rooted Reciprocity, and Solidarity

5.2.1 Compromise versus Consensus

5.2.2 Including Interests and Including Opinions

5.2.3 Rooted Reciprocity

5.2.4 Intrinsic Reasons for Compromise and Their Limits

5.2.5 The Solidarity of Compromise

5.2.6 Making Disagreement Visible

5.3 Democracy's Multiple Forms of Respect

6 Publicity and Correcting Democracy

6.1 Populism as a "Corrective"

6.2 The Publicity Condition

6.2.1 Publicity and Populism

6.3 Conflict, Politicization, and Polarization

6.4 A Bad School of Democracy

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009340885

1009340883

9781009340892

1009340891

9781009340854

1009340859

OCLC:

1481017164