Ordoliberal White Democracy, Elitism, and the Demos

IF 0.8 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Democratic Theory-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.3167/dt.2021.080204

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Abstract

Focusing on selected “Western” conceptions of democracy, we expose and normatively evaluate their conflictual meanings. We unpack the white democracy of prominent ordoliberal Wilhelm Röpke, which comprises an elitist bias against the demos, and we discuss different assessments of his 1964 apologia of Apartheid South Africa. Our critical-historical study of Röpke’s marginalized meaning of democracy traces a neglected anti-democratic continuity in his work that is to be contextualized within wider elitist (neo)liberal discourses: from his critique of Nazism in the 1930s to the defense of Apartheid in the 1960s. We provide an alternative, marginalized meaning of democracy that draws on Marxist political science. Such a meaning of democracy helps explain why liberal democratic theory is ill equipped to tackle anti-democratic tendencies re-emerging in liberal-democratic polities.

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专制的白人民主、精英主义和民主

本文以“西方”民主观为研究对象，对其矛盾内涵进行了揭示和规范评价。我们解读了著名的秩序自由主义者威廉·Röpke的白人民主，其中包括对民众的精英偏见，我们讨论了对他1964年为南非种族隔离辩护的不同评价。我们对Röpke被边缘化的民主意义的批判性历史研究追溯了他作品中被忽视的反民主连续性，这将被置于更广泛的精英主义（新）自由主义话语中：从他在20世纪30年代对纳粹主义的批判到20世纪60年代对种族隔离的辩护。我们提供了一种替代的、边缘化的民主意义，它借鉴了马克思主义政治学。民主的这种意义有助于解释为什么自由民主理论不足以应对自由民主政治中重新出现的反民主倾向。

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Democratic Theory-An Interdisciplinary Journal POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Democratic Theory is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn. It encourages philosophical and interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore democratic theory—in all its forms. Spanning a range of views, the journal offers a cross-disciplinary forum for diverse theoretical questions to be put forward and systematically examined. It advances non-Western as well as Western ideas and is actively based on the premise that there are many forms of democracies and many types of democrats. As a forum for debate, the journal challenges theorists to ask and answer the perennial questions that plague the field of democratization studies: Why is democracy so prominent in the world today? What is the meaning of democracy? Will democracy continue to expand? Are current forms of democracy sufficient to give voice to “the people” in an increasingly fragmented and divided world? Who leads in democracy? What types of non-Western democratic theories are there? Should democrats always defend democracy? Should democrats be fearful of de-democratization, post-democracies, and the rise of hybridized regimes?