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Article dans une revue Consecutio Rerum : rivista critica della postmodernità Année : 2020

L'idéal démocratique contre la démocratie Buchanan et l'économie politique constitutionnelle

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Neoliberals are often accused of being anti-democratic theorists. Buchanan, among them, has been particularly targeted as one of the instigators of anti-democratic movements in the United-States. This article shows, through the specific example of Buchanan, how this narrative leads to a misinterpretation of the relationship between neoliberal theorists and democracy. Far from simply criticizing democracy as a tyranny of the majority or as leading to situations of negative cooperation, Buchanan proposed a new conception of liberal democracy as a Constitutional democracy. The democratic ideal of a political society respecting individual autonomy would thus be compatible only with a limited form of democracy, protecting the members of the political society from the inflation of Leviathan power. In this article, I thus show how a neoliberal conception of democracy emerges from a normative contractualist social and political philosophy that legitimizes the establishment of constitutional rules that limit democracy while remaining consistent with the democratic ideal.
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halshs-03170101, version 1 (03-10-2022)

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Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger. L'idéal démocratique contre la démocratie Buchanan et l'économie politique constitutionnelle. Consecutio Rerum : rivista critica della postmodernità, 2020, Néolibéralisme et démocratie, 5 (9), pp.97-131. ⟨halshs-03170101⟩
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