Philip Manow

When, and in whose interests, did the concept of liberal democracy become politically meaningful? And what is the connection between our analytic concepts and the institutional contexts and the conflicts that they purport to merely describe?

Philip Manow sketches out a conceptual history of our democratic present that is systematically interwoven with the recent developments...

Democracy versus democracy – illiberal versus liberal, direct versus representative democracy, maybe even »the people vs. democracy«? It seems as though democracy has never been as...

Populism is a multifarious phenomenon. Sometimes from the right, sometimes from the left; sometimes it articulates a protest against open markets, sometimes it turns against migration. Also in its...