This year a new tactic of political struggle was introduced in the Riigikogu: total obstruction, that is, the inability of the Riigikogu to work and the total constraint of laws on trust in the government, which reduces popular representation to a rubber stamp. Can a harsh and total clash in the Riigikogu be dangerous for democracy, and is society now irrevocably divided? According to political scientists, we have done quite well.
The troublemaker gets more votes than the peacemaker
According to Mari-Liis Jakobson, associate professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at Tallinn University, a distinction must be made between political and social polarization. The first shows how much political parties can cooperate and how mutually exclusive they are. The second is the question of whether it is possible for us to talk about anything with people who have different points of view from ours.
2023-12-29 22:01:00
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