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Benjamin Studebaker

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Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge. Author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies & The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut
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The Last Argument for Democracy: The Unsettling Reliance of Embedded Democracies on Comparisons with Authoritarian Specter Regimes

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By Benjamin Studebaker
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
In 1947, Winston Churchill gave a speech before the British parliament in opposition to second chamber reform. In that speech (Parliament 1947), he argued against concentrating power in the House of Commons on the grounds that this would give the elected government too much power.
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Slopulism

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By Benjamin Studebaker
| Substack
I identify left populism with the political theory articulated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, first published in 1985.1 In its original incarnation, left populism was a response to three things: In so far as the working class still existed, it had become substantially less interested in socialism. In so far as interest in socialism still existed, it seemed to be coming from the new social movements, rather than the working class.
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Why Federalism: The Conclusion

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By Benjamin Studebaker
| streitcouncil.org
This is the final entry in my series on supranational federalism. There were five previous entries: In these essays, I sought to provide an account not just of what federalism might mean, but how people might be motivated to commit time and energy to it.
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