Articles by Dimitra Mareta

November 23, 2023

🦋 Is it post-democracy; or maybe authoritarian neo/liberalism?

Dimitra Mareta

'Democracy is in crisis'. We have heard this claim since the 1930s, and new terms regularly surface to describe democracy’s transformations through crisis. Of these terms, argues Dimitra Mareta, post-democracy and authoritarian neo/liberalism are the most challenging. While they describe either a strong or weak state, neither term captures the implications for the people living under such regimes

Dimitra Mareta

Independent Researcher

Dimitra Mareta holds a PhD in Political Science from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.

She was an adjunct lecturer in Political Science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for the academic year 2020–2021, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher, and at the Hellenic Open University for the academic years 2018–2019 and 2020–2021.

Her research and teaching interests include political philosophy, conservatism, the state, neo/liberalism and women’s studies.

Dimitra has published academic articles and has participated in national and international conferences.

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Her chapter on the theory of democracy appears in the Introduction to Political Science (Gutenberg, Athens, 2023) eds. Costas Eleftheriou, Yannis Tsirbas, Panos Koliostasis and Sophia Kanaouti, which presents theories of democracy from Ancient Athens to the present day.

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