Theorising democide ; Why and how democracies fail / Mark Chou.

• 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.

• 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.

Subject headings

Democracy.  (LCSH)

Democratization.  (LCSH)

Political science & theory.  (bicssc)

Constitution: government & the state.  (bicssc)

Political structures: democracy.  (bicssc)

Revolutionary groups & movements.  (bicssc)

Politics and Government.  (ukslc)

Political science & theory.  (thema)

Constitution: government & the state.  (thema)

Political structures: democracy.  (thema)

Revolutionary groups & movements.  (thema)

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POL (subject category)

JPA (subject category)

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JPHV (subject category)

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