Democracy and revolutionary politics

Chandhoke, Neera

Democracy and revolutionary politics / Neera Chandhoke - 1st ed. - New Delhi Bloomsbury, c2015 - ix, 186 p. 22 cm.

Includes index

Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains.

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Democracy Case studies; Philosophy Political; Social & political philosophy

321.8 / CHA

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