A third model of democracy

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Dirk Jörke; Dr. Skadi Siiri Krause
• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 427879639

• Final Report Year: 2023

Final Report Abstract

The project focused on two concerns: first, to present the richness of the debates surrounding the modern concept of democracy in the period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries; and second, to overcome a one-sided reading or interpretation of modern democracy that is based on a juxtaposition of direct and representative procedures but loses sight of the systematic and far-reaching involvement of citizens in the state and administration. It has therefore been the guiding thesis of the project that already in the English, American and French Revolutions genuinely motifs of this multi-layered understanding of democracy can be identified, which differs from classical republican models but also from the emerging liberal theories of the time, which were decisively based on constitutional discourses. The aim of the project was to condense the material to be processed in the history of ideas in such a way that the independent character of this new approach as a model of state, society and politics becomes clear.

Publications

• Demokratisches Denken in den Englischen Bürgerkriegen. Leviathan, 49(3), 426-448.
  Krause, Skadi S. & Jörke, Dirk
  
• Democracy and Democratic Reform Impulses Before the French Revolution. Contributions to Political Science, 165-187. Springer International Publishing.
  Krause, Skadi Siiri
  
• Die Figur des aktiven Bürgers in der politischen Ideengeschichte. Republikanisches Ethos und demokratisches Selbstverständnis. ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 12(2), 256-271.
  Krause, Skadi
  
• Die vernachlässigte Tradition demokratischen Denkens. Saeculum, 72(2), 203-232.
  Krause, Skadi Siiri
  
• Republicanism and Democracy: An Introduction. Contributions to Political Science, 1-13. Springer International Publishing.
  Krause, Skadi Siiri & Jörke, Dirk
  
• The American Founding: From Democratic to Aristocratic Republicanism. Contributions to Political Science, 143-164. Springer International Publishing.
  Dingeldey, Philip & Jörke, Dirk
  
• The Democratic Impulse in the English Revolution. Contributions to Political Science, 27-56. Springer International Publishing.
  Krause, Skadi Siiri
  
• The Democratic Moment in the American Revolution. Contributions to Political Science, 113-142. Springer International Publishing.
  Krause, Skadi Siiri
  
• Von den Levellers zu den Anti-Federalists: Ein verdrängtes radikaldemokratisches Verständnis von Volkssouveränität. Volkssouveränität und Staatlichkeit, 61-82. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
  Jörke, Dirk
  
• Republicanism and Democracy. Contributions to Political Science, Springer International Publishing.
  Krause, Skadi Siiri & Jörke, Dirk