Articles by Anastasia Deligiaouri

February 20, 2023

🦋 We must not sacrifice the essence of democracy on the altar of limitless conceptual pluralism

Anastasia Deligiaouri

Anastasia Deligiaouri argues that we should be wary of allowing incompatible concepts – such as 'illiberal democracy' – to dilute democracy’s essence. Rather, we must unravel and expunge the demons that lurk in democracies. By so doing, we will ensure this pluralism does not serve or fulfil autocratic desires

Anastasia Deligiaouri

Researcher, Mediatized EU Project / Part-Time Assistant Professor, School of Communications and School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Anastasia's research interests involve democratic theory, political communication, deliberation, European studies and discourse studies.

She tweets @adeligiaouri

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