Militant Democracy: The Limits of Democratic Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9781138542969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 242 str.

Bastiaan Rijpkema

Opis

The book posits a theory of militant democracy. Drawing on Karl Popper and Dutch legal scholar George Van den Bergh, it examines the reasons for justifying legal action against extremist parties and develops a new theory of democratic self-correction.

O autorze

Bastiaan R. Rijpkema is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He received his LLB in Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2010) and his LLM in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (cum laude) from Leiden University (2011). In 2015 he obtained his PhD at Leiden University with a dissertation on militant democracy, which was published in Dutch as Weerbare democratie: de grenzen van democratische tolerantie (Nieuw Amsterdam, 2015). For Weerbare democratie he was awarded the prize for the best Dutch political book of the year in 2016, the Prinsjesboekenprijs. In 2017 he won the New Scientist Wetenschapstalentprijs 2017 (New Scientist Science Talent Prize), the prize for the most talented young researcher of the Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch-speaking Belgium).