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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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