Militant Democracy and its Critics

Anthoula Malkopoulou is Docent and Lecturer at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. She has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the same department and a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Arts Program 'Engaging Vulnerability'. She has also held research positions at Princeton University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and the University of Jyvaskyla. Malkopoulou is the author of The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe (Routledge, 2015) and co-editor of Equality and Representation (Routledge: 2018). Alexander Kirshner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, 2015-16. His is the author of A Theory of Militant Democracy (Yale University Press 2014) and co-editor of Political Representation (Cambridge University Press 2010).