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Liberalizm wobec polaryzacji politycznych
Liberalism and political polarization

Author(s): Janusz A. Majcherek
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: illiberal democracy; ideological dichotomies; political pluralism;

Summary/Abstract: The customary classification of the ideological doctrines in democratic systems, which expanded along a left–right axis, is nowadays obsolescent and has been deconstructed. At the same time, the close and strong connection between democracy and liberalism, on which the primary model of liberal democracy was established, has been broken in many places of the world. The emerging of illiberal democracies has made the liberal component the main criterion for the classification of contemporary political systems, instead of dividing them into democratic and nondemocratic systems as before. Numerous ideological options could also be classified as being contrary to the liberal one. Liberalism has thus become important in the typologies and analyses of contemporary political systems and ideological options as the opposite to those systems on many new axes.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 51-64
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish