This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being...

Purpose Using composite indices, the paper examines nexus between militarization, globalization and liberal democracy. The democratic peace theory, conflict inhibiting effects of international trade – a key dominant facet democracy promoting hypothesis form theoretical underpinnings empirical investigation. Design/methodology/approach To probe into issue at hand, adopts dynamic panel VAR estima...

Understanding the relationship between experts and laypeople is crucial for under-standing today’s world of post-truth contemporary crisis liberal democracy. The emergence has been linked to various phenomena such as a flawed social mass media ecosystem, poor citizen education, manipulation tactics powerful interest groups. paper argues that problem is, however, more profound. underlying issue ...

There is an inherent tension between federalism and democracy. From the perspective of the constituent states that make up a federation, federalism constrains democracy because requirements of federal law may limit a state’s ability to adopt policies consistent with its citizens’ preferences. From the perspective of the federation as a whole, federalism constrains democracy because state govern...

Although scholars emphasise the contentious relationship of populist forces to (liberal) democracy, less attention has been paid whether this extends those who support or oppose parties. This article utilises a public opinion dataset from ten Western European countries analyse how citizens’ conceptions democracy relate behavioural intention vote for against The empirical analysis shows that pos...