الديماغوجيون والمستبدون .. الديمقراطيات على حافة الهاوية

Democracy and tyranny live more closely together than you might expect—this witty, fast-paced book reveals why that should worry us all. We live in turbulent times, marked by a sinister trend that threatens democracy everywhere: The triumph of tyranny not just in countries like Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, but also in countries run by popularly elected demagogues—Trump and Netanyahu. Prominent political thinker John Keane shows why this new authoritarianism defies the laws of political gravity. Rather than relying exclusively on fear or force, this tyranny encourages a strange type of quasi-democratic government, led by rulers adept at winning the loyalty of the masses through election rigging, legal deception, corruption, weaponizing lies, and speaking of enemies. What is worrying is that these new dictators hunt in packs. But what is so special about democracy? In a bold and vivid style, Keane shows that it is much more than popular self-government based on free and fair elections. Democracy is the collective insistence that unaccountable power is always dangerous, and that democratic institutions are our best weapon against demagogues and tyrants.