Jonas Van Vossole
Biographical Note
Readership
This book is for scholars of political theory and political economy, graduate students, and activists engaged with democracy and capitalism, offering Portugal- and Europe-based analysis with relevance beyond regional context.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Democracy in Portugal: Context and Crisis
1 The Making of Portuguese Democracy
2 The Political Economy of Austerity
3 Democracy as a Historical and Ideological Product
2 ‘Crisis’ in the Transition to Political Science
1 The Scientific Concept of Crisis
2 Dialectics and Critique
3 Crisis, Science, and History
4 Crisis, Science and the Political
5 Crisis, Critique and Political Science Now
3 Democratic Theory: History and Crisis
1 Schools and Waves of Democracy
2 The Crisis of Democracy and Its Alternatives
3 Crisis of the Alternatives and a Restart of History
4 Democracy in Today’s Crisis
4 Democratic Austerity
1 The Context: Three Ways to Read the Crisis
2 Elements of Austerity–Hegemony
3 Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Policymakers
4 An Austerity Definition of Democracy in Crisis
5 Democratic Alternatives
1 From Crisis to Protest: An Overview
2 Questioning the Protestors
3 From Protest to Democratic Alternatives
4 Contemporary Socialist Perspectives
6 Summary and Final Remarks
Postscript: From Pandemic to the Rise of the Global Right
Bibliography
Index
