TY - JOUR AU - Sadiku, Artan PY - 2015/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics JF - Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture JA - IJPGC VL - 11 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.51151/identities.v11i1.297 UR - https://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/297 SP - 67-88 AB - <p>My aim is to strengthen the argument against the dereliction of the notion of democracy – as it has resulted in the Balkans and elsewhere and to provide a thesis that a radical political change in the Balkans requires the occurrence of a political event by which a new social contract can establish itself as a genuine expression of the will of the people, or more precisely a new mode of state as a result of a new balance of class antagonisms. Reaffirming the notion of the people against its political correlative – the citizen, I aim to prove that the ‘return of the people’ – as concept is crucial for the radicalization of the concept of democracy which enables the leftist politics to be inaugurated into the political proper.</p><p>Author(s): Artan Sadiku</p><p>Title (English): Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics</p><p>Journal Reference: <em>Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</em>, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015)</p><p>Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje&nbsp;</p><p>Page Range: 67-88</p><p>Page Count: 13</p><p>Citation (English): Artan Sadiku, “Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics,” <em>Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</em>, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015): 67-88.</p> ER -