Tag: Lorenzo del Savio
EU elites will regret their self-serving dismissals of the demand for genuine popular control
Piketty and Habermas argue that the EU and the eurozone can be democratized by strengthening electoral-representative institutions. Such powers would only make popular control over EU political decisions even weaker than it already is, argue Lorenzo del Savio and Mateo Mameli in this essay. Similar PostsAnti-politics and the 1%
Anti-politics and the 1%
Representative democracy has come under attack from different directions during the global financial crisis of 2008 and beyond. In assessing these critiques, Matteo Mameli and Lorenzo del Savio argue that he existence and strength of the two strongest kinds of attack show that the current dominant kind of electoral-representative structures have become irremediably obsolete. Similar PostsYou Like this and […]
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