Radical Democracy
Treats democratic struggle as continuing challenges to exclusion and concentrated power rather than a completed institutional settlement. It extends democratic contestation into more areas of social life.
Foundational doctrines
- Extended democratization
- Contestation
- Opposition to exclusion
- Transformative equality
Disagreement and variation
Some approaches stress participation and others enduring conflict; critics question what stable rules can sustain democratic disagreement without containing it. Agonistic, deliberative, socialist, and poststructuralist strands disagree about consensus and political strategy.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.