Taina Meriluoto argues that "total democracy" refers to the way democratic arrangements are pervasive in Finnish society. https://theloop.ecpr.eu/democracy-what-a-lovely-mess/
In your experience, does this extend to:
1) Individual psychology?
2) How families/households govern themselves?
3) How schools, workplaces, apartment buildings, etc., govern themselves?
How pervasive is democracy in Finnish society and what kinds of democracy? Where are they happening? What is considered "common" here?
She does not present Mouffe's key points adequately. But regardless...the 'battle of values' is not really an explanatorily profitable notion. Interestingly, I think that Mouffe would endorse exactly the notion of 'democracy as an empty signifier' because that's how her ex, Ernesto L., put it in a number of his writings. Personally, I dislike the essays with strong emotional undertones, but it seems that the 'woke culture' is changing fashions quickly.
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