{"id":13457,"date":"2026-07-22T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&#038;p=13457"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:37:12","slug":"mccormick-rousseau-schmitt-and-the-legitimization-of-minoritarian-democracy","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/video\/mccormick-rousseau-schmitt-and-the-legitimization-of-minoritarian-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"McCormick: Rousseau, Schmitt, and the Legitimization of Minoritarian &#8220;Democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John McCormick (Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the strongest \u201cdemocratic\u201d legitimation of transitions from representative to authoritarian regimes is the claim that a more \u201cenlightened,\u201d \u201cmorally invested,\u201d or \u201cvital\u201d minority favoring the transition better expresses the common good (or \u201cgeneral will\u201d) than a mere numerical majority of citizens. This essay examines the origins of this legitimation strategy for contemporary authoritarianism in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Carl Schmitt.<\/p>\n<p>Lecture as part of the 2026 Annual Conference of the Research Program &#8220;Zeitenwenden. Normative Ordnungen im Umbruch?&#8221; (Turning Points. Normative Orders in Transition?) at the Research Centre Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt, funded by Stiftungsfonds Commerzbank im Stifterverband f\u00fcr die Deutsche Wissenschaft e. V.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction of the speaker<br \/>\n03:04 Lecture by John McCormick<\/p>\n<p>#democracy #democratic #principles #practice #resilience #innovation #rousseau #schmitt #minoritarian #minority #legitimation #general #will #authoritarianism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John McCormick (Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago) Perhaps the strongest \u201cdemocratic\u201d legitimation of transitions from representative to authoritarian regimes is the claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"aiovg_categories":[444],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-13457","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","aiovg_categories-2026-annual-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/13457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}