Beginning with the premise that democracies are often deeply implicated in their own downfall, The Theory of Democide challenges the conventional view of how and why democracies collapse by demonstrating that democratic collapse is often a direct result of the inherent logic of democracy itself.

Autorentext
Mark Chou is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Arts and Sciences at Australian Catholic University. His first book, Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy, was published in 2012.

Inhalt

1. Constituted to Fail: Democracy and its Self-Negation 2. Exogenous Breakdown: The Institutional, Socioeconomic and Political Causes of Democratic Termination 3. Endogenous Breakdown: The Conditions and Characteristics of Democracies which Self-Destruct 4. Towards a Theory of Democide