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Death by a Thousand Cuts : Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy / Matt Qvortrup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Qvortrup, Matt, author.
- Series:
- Democracy in times of upheaval ; Volume 1.
- Democracy in Times of Upheaval Series ; Volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dictatorship.
- Democracy.
- Regime change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]
- Summary:
- According to Plato, democracies die when people get angry. Resentment causes them to vote for demagogues. Recently, democratically elected politicians have used crises as a pretext for dismantling democracy, following a pattern we have seen since the dawn of civilization. Why do people fall for the lure of dictatorships? And what can we learn from the cause and effects of dictatorships to understand why democracies die?In this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed monograph Death By A Thousand Cuts, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so.Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy is written in an accessible style with vignettes and new empirical data to provide historical context and neurological evidence on a much-discussed topic: the threat of democracy. This book will help readers who are concerned about the longevity of democracy understand when and why democracy is in danger of collapsing and alert them to the warning signs of its demise.
- Contents:
- Intro
- About the Author and Series Editor
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Theories of Democratic Breakdown
- Chapter 2: Thymos and Amygdala: Neuropsychology and the Lure of Demagogues
- Chapter 3: Dictators 1919- 1945
- Chapter 4: Dictators During the Cold War
- Chapter 5: Dictatorships and Demagogues after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Chapter 6: How Demagogues Get Elected - and Abuse Democracy
- Chapter Seven: The Courts, the Press, and the Dictators
- Chapter 8: What is the Track-Record of Autocratic Regimes?
- Concluding Postscript
- Epilogue to the Second Edition
- Epilogue to the first edition
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-132783-3
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