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    Challenges→Radical democracy requires rejecting Western liberal democratic institutions such as parliaments and constitutions.

    Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau's radical democracy explicitly appropriates liberal democratic institutions as sites of hegemonic contestation, not rejection.

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    • 1.Laclau and Mouffe reject both liberal inevitability and revolutionary rupture, instead positioning democratic institutions as contested terrains.
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    • 2.Their framework enables marginalized groups to wage hegemonic struggles within existing institutional structures rather than abandoning them.
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    • 3.Mouffe's agonistic pluralism explicitly requires institutional channels to prevent antagonism from destroying democratic possibility altogether.
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    • 1.Appropriating liberal institutions while pursuing radical hegemonic change risks co-optation, as institutions structurally reproduce dominant power.
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    • 2.The claim conflates strategic engagement with institutions with genuine contestation—participation may legitimize rather than transform them.
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    • 3.Mouffe's later work emphasizes left populism *against* liberal institutional consensus, suggesting institutions themselves are targets, not sites of contest.
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