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- Title
Neoliberal Hegemony and the Post-Democratization of the Public Sphere. An analytical framework to evaluate the democratic quality of political discourse.
- Authors
Ritzi, Claudia
- Abstract
The paperoffers an analytical frameworkto evaluate the democratic quality of public discourses in Western democracies and discusses the consequences of a post-democratization of the public sphere. referring to Colin Crouch, Jacques rancière and Sheldon Wolin it arguesthat the gradual transformation of western democracies to "post-democracies" is marked by neoliberal hegemony, which strengthened the influence of economic elites and decreased the political power of the citizenry without being accompanied by institutional change. As it is argued in the paper, it also leads to a structural transformation of the public sphere. By analyzing these changes we can even test the post-democratic assumptions empirically and evaluate the impact of neoliberal hegemony on public discourse.
- Subjects
SOCIAL movements; PUBLIC demonstrations; SOCIAL media; SOCIAL psychology; SOCIAL criticism
- Publication
IC: Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, 2014, Issue 11, p167
- ISSN
1696-2508
- Publication type
Article