The tension between liberal rights and democratic sovereignty is ineradicable yet negotiable, not fatal

Evidence

What they want to deny is the paradoxical nature of modem democracy and the fundamental tension between the logic of democracy and the logic of liberalism. They arc unable to acknowledge that. while it is indeed the case that individual rights and democratic self-government are constitutive of liberal democracy - whose novelty resides precisely in the articulation of those two traditions - there exists between their respective ‘grammars’ a tension that can never be eliminated. To be sure. contrary to what adversaries like Carl Schmitt have argued, this docs not mean that liberal democracy is a doomed regime. Such a tension, though ineradicable. can be negotiated in different ways. Indeed. a great part of democratic politics is precisely about the negotiation of that paradox and the articulation of precarious solutions. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 426

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Limits on political confrontation are political choices, not moral or rational requirements — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 428; Liberalism and democracy are only contingently articulated, not necessarily linked — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 332; Democracy and liberalism can be decoupled and even opposed — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 235 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberalism and democracy are only contingently articulated, not necessarily linked #expands (0.90) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 332
• Democracy and liberalism can be decoupled and even opposed #qualifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 235
• Democratic negotiation is agonistic struggle without final resolution #expands (0.85)
• Democratic liberal values sometimes fail to erode entrenched intolerance #qualifies (0.80) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 104