Powerlessness and Unfairness. A Letter to Jan Zielonka
Henri Vogt
Powerlessness and Unfairness. A Letter to Jan Zielonka
Henri Vogt
Berghahn Books Ltd.
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on:
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042827016
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042827016
Tiivistelmä
Jan Zielonka’s Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat (Oxford University Press, 2018) is a furious, worried pamphlet on the challenges that European democracies are currently facing, on the apparent rise
of illiberalism. This article critically reviews the book and seeks to offer a somewhat different and perhaps more optimistic picture of the current predicaments of European politics. The main point of reference in this respect is Finland, a country whose political institutions have managed, by and large, to uphold a sense of coherence in society. A commitment to participatory, equality-based, and freedom-generating institutions can indeed be seen as a primary means to counter the decline of liberalism.
Kokoelmat
- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19207]