LSI Berlin Book Launch: 13. Juni 2023, When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty and the Future of Liberal Democracy, moderated by Ira Katznelson, with Ewa Atanassow, Thomas Bartscherer, Berit Ebert, Dieter Grimm, Anna Bettina Kaiser, and Roni Mann
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The idea and ideal of popular sovereignty, which has served to ground the liberal democratic order and to legitimize power in the modern world, has come under increasing pressure in recent decades. On the one hand, the rise of authoritarian populisms purporting to express the will of the people has undermined the commitment to liberal norms and constitutional protections. On the other, a growing influence of international institutions and non-governmental organizations has insulated large areas of policymaking from political contestation and popular control. The result of these developments has been to call into question the very coherence of liberal democracy.
The event ist part of the series LSI Berlin Book Launch.