nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190708-143516-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190620s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190708-143516-0 doi eng 342 23 Romele, Alberto Author aut An Illusion of Western Democracies Romele, Alberto Verfassungsblog 2019-06-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The thesis I propose is that the reason why the Social Credit System so scandalises Westerners is not because it is contrary to ‘our’ Aristotelian and Arendtian liberal political tradition. Rather, it is precisely because it shows the illusion upon which this tradition is founded. This consists in believing that there is a void at our disposal between people as ‘free’ citizens and the political as a set of laws. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 China Social Credit System Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/an-illusion-of-western-democracies/ raw object