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024 7 _a10.1515/9780748681891
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780748681891
035 _a(DE-B1597)614379
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082 0 4 _a321.8
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aChou, Mark
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDemocracy Against Itself :
_bSustaining an Unsustainable Idea /
_cMark Chou.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 Democracy Against Itself --
_t2 Democracy in Athens: Autonomy, Tragedy and Decline --
_t3 Democide in Weimar: Militant Democracy and the Paradox of Self-Defence --
_t4 The Coming Authoritarianism: The State of America's Democracy --
_t5 China's New Authoritarianism: A Glimpse at Our Post-Democratic Future? --
_t6 Occupy Democracy: Democracy Against Itself and the Global Occupy Movement --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhy do some democracies self-destruct?GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748681884','ISBN:9780748681891']);By their very nature, all democracies have the potential to destroy themselves. But this fact is too rarely documented by acolytles of the system. In the decades since Joseph Goebbels, then Reich Minister of Propaganda, reminded the world that it 'will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed', democrats have quickly forgotten just how precarious a political framework it can be.Using the collapse of democracy in ancient Athens and the Weimar Republic, as well as the uncertain fate of democratic rule in the United States and China today as illustrative examples, Mark Chou examines the conditions and characteristics of democracy that make it prone to self-destruct. In drawing out the political lessons from these past collapses, he explains how a democracy can, simply by being democratic, sow the seeds of its own destruction.Explores why democracies fail, both theoretically and empirically4 case studies: democratic Athens, the Weimar Republic, contemporary American democracy and China's fledging efforts to democratiseTakes political lessons from the case studies to highlight the predicaments faced by weak and failing democracies today"
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aAuthoritarianism.
650 0 _aDemocracy.
650 4 _aPolitics.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780748681891
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748681891
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