Democracy deepens as agents accept their claims’ particularity and power’s ineradicability.

Evidence

When we envisage democratic politics from such an antiessentialist perspective, we can begin to undestand that, for democracy to exist, no social agent should be able to claim any mastery of the foun4atitJn of society. This signifies that the relation between social agents becomes more democratic only as far as they accept the particularity and the limitation of their claims; that is, only in so far as they recognize their mutual relation as one from which power is ineradicable. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 100

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Democracy channels contention into bargaining over claim-making boundaries — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1311; Officials defending democratic processes can enact democracy even from self-interested motives — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 361; Democracy’s task is converting antagonism into agonism, not erasing it — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 584 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Democratic politics transforms antagonism between enemies into agonism between adversaries #expands (0.83) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 461
• The incommensurability of universal and particular is the precondition for democracy #corroborates (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Liberal democracies are simultaneously mechanisms of domination and empowerment #corroborates (0.80) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 47
• Democracy’s task is converting antagonism into agonism, not erasing it #expands (0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 584
• Contending citizenship identifications let democracy mobilize passions and defuse antagonism #expands (0.76) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 465
• Power-legitimation must come from within democracy itself once unifying worldviews fade #expands (0.74) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 92
• Each group’s creative response to powerlessness retained part of the democratic ideal #exemplifies (0.73) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 173
• Officials defending democratic processes can enact democracy even from self-interested motives #exemplifies (0.72) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 361
• Democracy is power’s technical character normalized in moral terms #complicates (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 745
• Direct democracy can itself enable the tyranny of a majority #qualifies (0.71) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 77