Nicht "illiberal", sondern undemokratisch

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Nicht "illiberal", sondern undemokratisch

Framing-Check: "Illiberale Demokratie"

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Meyer-Ohlendorf, Nils and Michael Meyer-Resende 2018: Framing-Check: "Illiberale Demokratie". Nicht "illiberal", sondern undemokratisch. Süddeutsche Zeitung: 8. Oktober 2018. Online: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/framing-check-illiberale-demokratie-nicht-illiberal-sondern-undemokratisch-1.4133775

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The term illiberal democracy is used often. This is a problem. The term "illiberal democracy" makes it invisible that democracy is dismantled in so-called "illiberal democracies". Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf, Head of International and European Governance at Ecologic Institute, and Michael Meyer-Resende, both co-founders of Democracy Reporting International, argue in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the appropriate terms are undemocratic or authoritarian.

Not "illiberal," but undemocratic.

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