Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy

Eerik Lagerspetz is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland.Oili Pulkkinen is a historian, who is currently researching artificial intelligence, democracy, political subjectivity and time.

• 1 Introduction.- PART I Trust, Distrust, and Democracy.- 2 Trust in Science Revisited. Social-Epistemic Challenges in Democratic and Digital Societies.- 3 Suspicious Minds: Towards a Typology of Political Distrust.- 4 Distrust and Democracy.- PART II Authoritarianism and Democracy.- 5 Whose populism? What democracy? On the Conceptual and Normative Connections of Populism and Democracy.- 6 Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of Populism.- 7 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Illiberal Challenge.- 8 The Grey Areas of Democracy: Indifference and the Erosion of Democratic Principles from Within.- 9 Constitutional Thought, Democracy and Crisis Government.- PART III Democracy—The Will of the People?.- 10 From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures.- 11 The Agenda Problem in Referendum Democracy.- 12 On the Concept and Practice of Democracy in Late Modern Mass Conditions: An Oakeshottian Update.