Theorising Democide: Why and How Democracies Fail by Theorising Democide: Why & How Democracies Fail

Author:Theorising Democide: Why & How Democracies Fail
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1Jeffrey C. Isaac, Democracy in Dark Times (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998), p.5.

2John Keane, The Life and Death of Democracy (London: Pocket Books, 2009), p.63.

3Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker, ‘The Symbiosis of Democracy and Tragedy: Lost Lessons from Ancient Greece,’ Millennium (Vol.37, No.3, 2009): 659–682; Mark Chou, ‘Democracy in an Age of Tragedy: Democracy, Tragedy and Paradox,’ Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory (Vol.11, No.2, 2010): 289–313.

4Cornelius Castoriadis, ‘The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy,’ in Cornelius Castoriadis (trans. and ed. David Ames Curtis), The Castoriadis Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), p.282.

5Keane, The Life and Death of Democracy, pp.66, 75.

6Ibid., p.71.

7Ibid., p.568.

8Ibid.

9Ibid., p.569.

10Adrian Pabst, ‘The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy,’ Telos (Vol.152, 2010): 44–67, p.46; Dick Howard, ‘Two Hundred Years of Error? The Politics of Democracy,’ Philosophy and Social Criticism (Vol.19, No.1, 1993): 15–24; p.18.

11Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp.xx, xix.

12Ibid., p.xxi.

13Ibid., p.44, 46.

14Ibid., pp.45–46.

15Henry A. Giroux, ‘Democracy and the Threat of Authoritarianism: Politics Beyond Barack Obama,’ truthout, 15 February 2010, http://truth-out.org/print/56890.

16Wolin, Democracy Incorporated, p.56.

17Dick Howard, ‘From Anti-Communism to Anti-totalitarianism: The Radical Potential of Democracy,’ Government and Opposition (Vol.37, No.4, 2002): 551–572, p.551.

18Jacques Ranciere, Hatred of Democracy (London: Verso, 2006), p.4.

19Ibid., p.7.

20Wolin, Democracy Incorporated, p.46.

21Paul Fairfield, Why Democracy? (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008), pp.89–90.

22Robert Moss, The Collapse of Democracy (London: Abacus, 1977), p.35.

23Anne Sa’adah, ‘Hope, Disappointment, and Self-Restraint: Reflections on the Democratic Experiment,’ in Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra N. Suleiman (eds), The Making and Unmaking of Democracy: Lessons from History and World Politics (New York: Routledge, 2003), p.68.

24Georg Sorensen, Democracy and Democratization: Processes and Prospects in a Changing World (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), p.4; John L. Safford, Democracy is Dangerous: Resisting the Tyranny of the Majority (Lanham: University Press of America, 2002), pp.9–10.

25Alain Badiou, ‘The Democratic Emblem,’ Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek, Democracy in What State? (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), p.13.

26Robert D. Kaplan, ‘Was Democracy Just a Moment?,’ in Stephen John Goodlad (ed.), The Last Best Hope: A Democracy Reader (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001), p.50.

27Ibid., p.57.

28Pabst, ‘The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy,’ p.46; Howard, ‘Two Hundred Years of Error?,’ p.18.

29Claude Lefort (trans. David Macey), Democracy and Political Theory (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988), p.19.

30Ibid.

31Castoriadis, ‘The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy,’ p.274.

32Lefort, Democracy and Political Theory, pp.19–20.

33Ibid., p.28. Though it should be noted here that, for Lefort, this prospect is one that ‘implies the ruin of democracy.’ It does not represent the culmination of the historic adventure inaugurated by democracy; it inverts its meaning.

34Romand Coles, Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), p.xi.

35Ibid., pp.18–19; Pabst, ‘The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy,’ pp.44–67.

36Alain Touraine and Kevin McDonald, ‘Democracy,’ Thesis Eleven (Vol.38, No.1, 1994): 1–15, p.10.

37Sheldon Wolin, ‘Fugitive Democracy,’ Constellations (Vol.1, No.1, 1994): 11–25, p.23.

38Safford, Democracy is Dangerous, p.viii.

39Lawrence J. Hatab, ‘Prospects for a Democratic Agon: Why We Can Still Be Nietzscheans,’ Journal of Nietzsche Studies (Vol.

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