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There is a lack of consensus among experts about the exact definition of illiberal democracy or whether it even exists. [2] The rulers of an illiberal democracy may ignore or bypass constitutional limits on their power. [3] While liberal democracies protect individual rights and freedoms, illiberal democracies do not. [4]
A liberal democracy is a representative democracy with rule of law, protection for individual liberties and rights, and limitations on the power of the elected representatives. An illiberal democracy is a representative democracy with weak or no limits on the power of the elected representatives to rule as they please.
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a liberal democracy to flourish and the pros and cons of the global focus on democracy as the building block of a more stable society rather than liberty.
Many of these countries are not constitutionally liberal and can be described as illiberal democracies. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Constitutional liberalism is different from liberal constitutionalism. While the former asserts values of personal sovereignty at a constitutional level, the latter guards freedom to assert ones own values in the constitution.
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There are two rules for illiberal democracy.The first rule is that during an emergency certain illiberal and anti-democratic measures are necessary to ensure public safety, national security, and ...
By the end of the 19th century, liberal democracy was no longer only a liberal idea, but an idea supported by many different ideologies. After World War I and especially after World War II, liberal democracy achieved a dominant position among theories of government and is now endorsed by the vast majority of the political spectrum. [citation ...
The first part is about the origin and constituents of liberalism, notably its cental idea of individual rights, which would have been alien to the ancient world in which democracy originated. The second part is a modern history of liberal and democratic movements, including their often turbulent interactions and the recent concept of liberal ...