Dissensus over Liberal Democracy

Ramona Coman is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, where she served as President (2009-2023) and Director (2014-2019) of the Institute for European Studies. Her research focuses on dynamics of policy/institutional change, democratization and Europeanization.Frederik Ponjaert is researcher at the Institute for European Studies at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Regionalism at SciencesPo (IEP-Paris). His research is on comparative regionalism, with an emphasis on European and Asian realities.Andrew Bradley is a development/democracy practitioner with a focus on Africa and Europe, specializing in EU-AU institutional architecture. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the PolyCIVIS Project at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and member of the RED-SPINEL Project Management Team at the Institut d’études européennes (IEE) of the ULB.

• The everyday experience of dissensus over liberal democracy.- Many of the crises we face are invisible crises of meaning’. Interview with Georgi Gospodinov.- There are 27 ways to be democratic’. Interview with Robert Menasse.- We live in prefascist times in the sense that fascism is possible’. Interview with Natascha Strobl.- Liberalism increasingly undermines its own conditions for social reproduction’. Interview with Adrienne Buller.- No fiscal rule is as strict as it is portrayed in public’. Interview with Philippa Sigl-Glöckner.- Social rights and civil rights are the embodiment of the rule of law’. Interview with Virginia Fiume.- It is crucial that our internal alarm systems are well-tuned so we can quickly identify problems and intervene’. Interview with Diana Filimon.- People are getting increasingly confused about what is information and what is opinion’. Interview with Laurent Richard.- It is time for us to take a real look at the causes and the actors eroding democracy’. Interview with Neil Datta.- Democracy is a more complicated story to defend than to attack’. Interview with John Morijn.- The rule of law is too important to be exclusive to lawyers’. Interview with Petra Bárd.- All constitutional systems have their differences, but I do not think any of them is immune’. Interview with Maximilian Steinbeis.- The question is how much of a downturn we will have to endure before things start looking up’. Interview with András Kádár.- I Wanted to Create Reality Instead of Documenting It’. Interview with Iwona Harris.- The nature of dissensus is essentially social economic’. Interview with Nikos Pilos.- Inaction is perhaps the biggest threat to democracy’. Interview with Nicholas Aiossa.- We need to be careful about how many unresolved social conflicts, or dissensus, are just moved to the courtroom’. Interview with Vigjilenca Abazi.- As humanity’s future is at stake, climate inaction is arguably the most concerning betrayal of the social contract between the State and its people’. Interview with .- Filippo Among the challenges the EU must face, like the climate transition, a lot of workers feel that they will be left behind’. Interview with Ludovic Voet.- The EU is still the only trade player with a vision for animal welfare in trade’. Interview with Stephanie Ghislain.- The national interest is not polarisation, the national interest is actually to unify society’. Interview with Vidar Helgesen.- I am deeply sceptical about what democracy, especially liberal democracy, has turned into’. Interview with Nidžara Ahmetašević.- We need a democratic liberalism where everyone feels they fit in’. Interview with Kurt Bassuener.- The absence of accountability and rule of law is directly leading to the loss of lives’. Interview with Sonja Stojanović Gajić.- We should go for gradual accession’. Interview with Pierre Mirel.- The Western world cannot be the sole arbiter of what democracy is or how it is modelled and engendered’. Interview with Larbi Sadiki.- Ghana’s democracy has been reduced to an electoral democracy’. Interview with Vera Abena Addo.- We may well be on the path to global destruction. And all I can do is fight against that’. Interview with Sarah Leah Whitson.