Thank you for returning to your reflections! They always make us think and remind us that we are not alone. If Przeworski has doubts, why shouldn’t I have them too? Jokes aside, perhaps political science is indeed going through a crisis of understanding. For a long time, it was believed that the PLO could not be surpassed in the process of political control in Palestine, and that the Orthodox could not take part in the State of Israel. It was thought that what happened in Poland and Hungary could not happen in Europe. A sense of certainty that was rooted in this crisis of understanding: “What has not happened cannot happen.”
Perhaps we need to look again at the creative dimension of social processes and the very innovation within the social process itself. The crisis of understanding is best grasped in relation to those things once affirmed as impossible.
Looking from afar, I was amazed at how the debate about Trump’s actions always ended up being framed as “a constitutional crisis.” Most people seem unwilling to use words like “coup,” “autocracy,” or “dictatorship.” Instead, it is reduced to a vague and mysterious “constitutional crisis.”
Just a question, the result at Brazil be 4x1 at the supreme court about Bolsonaro, was a suprise too for you guys or just at Brazil we think 5x0 e not one “fux we trust “
Thank you for returning to your reflections! They always make us think and remind us that we are not alone. If Przeworski has doubts, why shouldn’t I have them too? Jokes aside, perhaps political science is indeed going through a crisis of understanding. For a long time, it was believed that the PLO could not be surpassed in the process of political control in Palestine, and that the Orthodox could not take part in the State of Israel. It was thought that what happened in Poland and Hungary could not happen in Europe. A sense of certainty that was rooted in this crisis of understanding: “What has not happened cannot happen.”
Perhaps we need to look again at the creative dimension of social processes and the very innovation within the social process itself. The crisis of understanding is best grasped in relation to those things once affirmed as impossible.
Best regards, Fátima!
Looking from afar, I was amazed at how the debate about Trump’s actions always ended up being framed as “a constitutional crisis.” Most people seem unwilling to use words like “coup,” “autocracy,” or “dictatorship.” Instead, it is reduced to a vague and mysterious “constitutional crisis.”
Just a question, the result at Brazil be 4x1 at the supreme court about Bolsonaro, was a suprise too for you guys or just at Brazil we think 5x0 e not one “fux we trust “
Great analysis, as usual.
It seems that democratic backsliding could benefit from some modeling that considered some sort of phase transitions, like in physics.
Agree. I don't think we quite understand it as a steady state.