Der Liberalismus macht selig und der Sonntagsgottesdienst macht liberal : ein Wort z. Verständigung an Herrn Gustav Levinstein

von Heinrich Loewe

Populism and Liberal Democracy: Populists in Government in Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland

The enduring electoral success of populist parties across Europe and the increasing opportunities they have gained to access government in recent years bring once more into relief the question of whether populism and democracy are fully compatible. In this article we show how, despite playing different roles in government within very different political systems, and despite the numerous constraints placed upon them (for instance, EU membership, international law and domestic checks and balances), populist parties consistently pursued policies that clashed with fundamental tenets of liberal democracy. In particular, the idea that the power of the majority must be limited and restrained, the sanctity of individual rights and the principle of the division of powers have all come under threat in contemporary Europe. This has contributed to the continuing erosion of the liberal consensus, which has provided one of the fundamental foundations of the European project from its start.

Liberal and Radical Democracies: The Swiss Cantons Compared

This article examines the widespread hypothesis that German-speaking Swiss cantons exhibit radical-democratic characteristics, while the Latin cantons possess stronger liberal-representative democratic profiles. Empirical and multi-dimensional measuring of the quality of democracy in the cantons shows that this hypothesis does not do the complexity of cantonal democracy justice. Today’s position of the cantons along the axes of liberal and radical democracy is best explained with reference to the strong liberal and democratic constitutional movements within the cantons during the middle of the 19th century.

Political Sociology of Islam Integration: the Role of Liberal Law

In Europe and North America, migration and integration has become a busy subfield of political sociology. Of particular interest in this respect is the integration of Muslims and Islam, which has dominated the debate in Europe. Broadly conceived «political opportunity structures» have received much attention in this context. But the role of liberal law in the integration of Islam has been largely ignored, not by lawyers of course, but by political sociologists who have thus delivered far too negative and truncated pictures of Muslims and Islam in Europe. This is the deficit we sought to redress in Legal Integration of Islam; A Transatlantic Comparison (2013) (co-authored with John Torpey). Some of this study’s main ideas and findings are presented in the following.

El orden político "liberal conservador" en la Argentina de la generación del '80

En Argentina, el liberalismo y el conservadorismo, constituyen el trasfondo ideológico del sistema político de la generación de 1880. A partir de 1880 se consolidan las instituciones políticas y se definen los rasgos centrales de la sociedad argentina, la que sufrirá profundas transformaciones al influjo del crecimiento económico, demográfico y de las políticas de educación pública. La empresa política es protagonizada por los hombres del "80", quienes constituyen la primera "generación argentina" que concreta ese nuevo espíritu que surge en el "53": coexistencia de amplias libertades civiles y económicas junto a una estructura con rasgos centralizadores, con claro predominio del órgano ejecutivo como reaseguro contra las tendencias anárquicas.

Positivismo y ciudadanía : José Ingenieros y la constitución de la ciudadanía por la ciencia y la educación en la Argentina

Fil: Vermeren, Patrice.

La antorcha del progreso por los caminos del sur : los espacios positivistas en la Argentina y su proyección iberoamericana (1895 - 1900)

Fil: De Lucía, Daniel Omar.

Las Lecciones de Luis José de la Peña, el “ingenioso" Laromiguière antes de la revolución ecléctica y el compromiso de la filosofía con el Estado liberal-republicano naciente en la Argentina

Fil: Vermeren, Patrice.

Filippa, Nelly M. Combates por las ideas. El positivismo pedagógico en San Juan (1890/1930) San Juan, Fundación Universidad Nacional de San Juan, 2004, 167 p.

Fil: Alvarado, Mariana. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Nuevos aspectos del positivismo en la Argentina

Fil: Dozo, Luis Adolfo.

Materialismo, darwinismo, positivismo : diferencias y semejanzas

Fil: Scalabrini, Pedro.

La crítica al eclecticismo y al positivismo hedonista en los escritos juveniles de Agustín Álvarez

Fil: Roig, Arturo Andrés.