Why and How Democracies Fail
By Mark Chou
Palgrave, April 2013
The common assumption is that the path to democratisation is, once
begun, near impossible to reverse. Particularly where democratic
transition has been properly consolidated conventional wisdom and
empirical evidence both suggest that no democracy should follow the
example of Classical Athens or Germany's Weimar Republic and return to
despotism. Starting from the premise that democracies are often deeply
implicated in their own downfall, Theorising Democide
challenges this conventional view by showing how democratic collapse is
symptomatic of the inherent logic of democracy. Democide, in some
cases, can thus be understood as a kind of ideological suicide with the
tenets and devices of democracy being somehow intrinsic to its own
collapse. In other words democide denotes the capacity that democracy
has to come undone, to risk its own safety, to take its own life while
doing what it was intended to do.To read more....
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