Articles by Andreas Schedler

May 4, 2022

Fears of ‘majoritarian tyrannies’ are not antidemocratic but antipopulist

Andreas Schedler

Since its invention, representative democracy has been haunted by fears of 'majoritarian tyranny.' Critics have often dismissed these fears as the anti-democratic ideology of self-protective elites. Yet, Andreas Schedler argues, rather than antidemocratic, they are antipopulist, as they recognise the plurality and fallibility of the people

Andreas Schedler

Senior Research Fellow, Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest 

At the CEU Democracy Institute, Andreas leads the research group on De- and Re-Democratization.

His current research focuses on political polarisation and the destruction of basic democratic trust.

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