Democracy and time: An invitation

Andreas Schedler, Javier Santiso

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Time with its many roles and faces is a major player in the field of politics. But up to now, neither political science in general nor studies of democracy in particular have taken explicit and systematic notice of it. The present explorative article outlines some core questions that could (and should) be addressed by future research on political time: the construction of democratic time horizons (future and past), the nature of democracies' current present, the weight of time constraints, the force of institutional time rules, the choice of time strategies, and last but not least, the logic of time discourses in democratic polities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-18
Number of pages14
JournalInternational Political Science Review
Volume19
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1998
Externally publishedYes

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