Democracy and Koselleck’s Sematic Models of Crisis

I would like to show that the crisis of democracy, as a narrative, has two aspects. The first is related to the territorial expansion of democracy and the deadlock, or renovations it has experienced. This I will interpret with reference to Koselleck’s first semantic model. The second aspect relates to the crisis of its sense in the so-called developed democracies. It seems that democracy didn’t experience the crisis simultaneously with the recent economic crisis but much earlier. I will illustrate this by refering to Koselleck's second semantic model which emphasizes the relationship between crisis and progress, or recovery. The problem is that crises are inherent to democratic capitalism. Regardless of the cataclysmic pronouncements which come from Koselleck’s third model of crisis (as the Last Judgement), it can be showed that democracy has a significant possibility of renewal if we accept its capacity to shift its place, form, subject and identity.