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"Die Zauberflöte, eine Operette in zwey Aufzügen". Egy műfaji megjelölés 18. századi előtörténetéhez
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Késő ókori csörgők a Keletrómai Birodalom levantei tartományaiban. Az avar kori és a magyar honfoglalás kori varázshagyomány hátteréhez
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From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative
No full textThe article argues that the theory of plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD), originally developed by Max Weber, is in its somewhat rejuvenated version a helpful framework in interpreting longer-term and more recent empirical trends in contemporary democracies, such as the growing personalization of politics, the emergence of populist leaders, rising levels of polarization, and the growing importance of social media. However, to realize the potential of the theory, it should be detached from Jeffrey Green’s most original, yet insufficiently realistic elaboration of plebiscitary democracy that he made a decade ago. The article argues that instead of a passive and unifiable entity, the citizenry should be thought of as reactive and deeply divided, a setting which can be characterized by the metaphor of the infamous Byzantine chariot races rather than that of the theater, implicit in Green’s theory. Plebiscitary democracy should be thought of as representational, where popular control is manifested as the veto power of the popular voice. Additionally, despite its realist minimalism, the theory we propose may still have some critical potential, because it adopts the refurbished ideal of competition. The article closes by identifying further avenues of theoretization leading towards a more elaborate view of PLD