Epilogue. Regarding ‘Frontlash / Backlash: The Crisis of Solidarity and the Threat to Civil Institutions’, by Jeffrey Alexander. In defense of liberal democracy: frontlash / backlash overlapping and politicization of social life as threats to democracy
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This article addresses the threat that the current frontlash-backlash dynamic represents for liberal democracy in a context of strong politicization of social life and overflow of institutional politics. The frontlash-backlash dialectic is inherent to the democratic process, however the prominence that in this new millennium have gained, on one side and the other of the frontlash-backlash scheme, the conflicts around the collective identity, the binary discursive forms of populism, and the challenge to the values and institutions on which it is based modern democracy, suggest that we are witnessing, in this second phase of modernity, a shift in the way in which this type of dynamic has been taking place.
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