radical democracy

Radical democracy was articulated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in their book Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, written in 1985. They argue that social movements which attempt to create social and political change need a strategy which challenges neoliberal and neoconservative concepts of democracy. This strategy is to expand the liberal definition of democracy, based on freedom and equality, to include difference.

The Radical Democracy (, DR), was a Chilean political party positioned Centre-right. The party, created in 1969, was dissolved in 1973, to reappear in 1983 before disbanding permanently in 1990.