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Anti-democratic political parties as a threat to democracy: Models of reaction and the strategic democracy

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dc.contributor.authorKouroutakis, Antonios
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dc.date.issued2018-12-01
dc.description.abstractThere is a consensus among policymakers, lawmakers, legal scholars and ‘we the people’ in the western world, that democracy is a blessing. However, how do we defend democracy from anti-democratic political parties that aim to overthrow the democratic regime by abusing the guarantees and the tolerance of democracy? This article argues that there are three public policy options: the traditional model that permits the dissolution of anti-democratic political parties; the business as usual model, that regulates such parties with ordinary administrative law and controls the conduct of their members via ordinary criminal law; and finally, the strategic model that employs an electoral system according to which political parties, like the anti-democratic, having more enemies than supporters are ostracized. That said, this article argues that whilst electoral law is the most rule-of-law based mechanism to safeguard democracies from anti-democratic parties, not all electoral systems are capable. Only the electoral systems that allow for ‘strategic voting’ can be employed for this purpose.
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dc.identifier.citationKouroutakis, A. E. (2018). Anti-Democratic Political Parties as a Threat to Democracy: Models of Reaction and the Strategic Democracy. PUBLIC LAW REVIEW UPDATE, 29, 310.
dc.identifier.issn1034-3024
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3479
dc.issue.number310
dc.journal.titlePublic Law Review
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThomson Reuters
dc.relation.departmentPublic Law & Global Governance
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Law School
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dc.subject.keywordAntidemocratic political parties
dc.subject.keywordStrategic democracy
dc.subject.keywordElectoral law
dc.titleAnti-democratic political parties as a threat to democracy: Models of reaction and the strategic democracy
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dc.volume.number29
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