TY  - JOUR
A1  - Milstein, Brian
T1  - Security and democratic equality
T2  - Contemporary political theory
N2  - After a recent spate of terrorist attacks in European and American cities, liberal democracies are reintroducing emergency securitarian measures (ESMs) that curtail rights and/or expand police powers. Political theorists who study ESMs are familiar with how such measures become instruments of discrimination and abuse, but the fundamental conflict ESMs pose for not just civil liberty but also democratic equality still remains insufficiently explored. Such phenomena are usually explained as a function of public panic or fear-mongering in times of crisis, but I show that the tension between security and equality is in fact much deeper and more general. It follows a different logic than the more familiar tension between security and liberty, and it concerns not just the rule of law in protecting liberty but also the role of law in integrating new or previously subjected groups into a democratic community. As liberal-democratic societies become increasingly diverse and multicultural in the present era of mass immigration and global interconnectedness, this tension between security and equality is likely to become more pronounced.
KW  - security
KW  - equality
KW  - democracy
KW  - rights
KW  - liberty
KW  - emergency powers
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75072
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-750728
SN  - 1476-9336
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
SP  - 836
EP  - 857
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  -