importance of policy representation as a useful conceptual tool for the study of democracy, as well as the role that ideas …

authoritarian regression in two of collapsology’s “crucial cases” – inter-war Germany and post-communist Russia. Instead, (a) a … Germany, we can find in today’s Russia fascist actors and widespread nationalism among the population. In current Russia, in … distinction to inter-war Germany, however, the party system is manipulated and the third sector underdeveloped. The continuing …

We speak often of 'representative democracy' and we tend to regard it as the dominant form of government in the modern … branches of government have been important, significantly different underlying conceptions of democracy and of the political …

democracies that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union. The postwar model of strong constitutional courts, modeled on Germany …