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Kidnapped Democracy

Kidnapped Democracy

Hardcover

Series: Polemics

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 178661362X
ISBN13: 9781786613622
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 20 2019
Pages: 107
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked. By stealth, powerful elites have gradually gained control of the political sphere and transformed it to serve their own interests. The political systems of what appear to be established democracies in all corners of the world are showing signs of this takeover, which has led to widespread citizen disaffection and indignation. Kidnapped Democracy uses the metaphor of captivity to illustrate the differences and similarities between conventional kidnappings and the hijacking of a political system. The book's nine chapters identify the kidnappers, the accomplices, the hostages, the victims and the negotiators before examining the effect of a peculiar Stockholm syndrome and, finally, reflecting on possible ways to secure the release of democracy.

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