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Democracy’s Blameless Leaders - From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, How Leaders Evade Accountability for Abuse, Atrocity, and Killing (Hardcover)
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Democracy’s Blameless Leaders - From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, How Leaders Evade Accountability for Abuse, Atrocity, and Killing (Hardcover)
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From the American and British counter-insurgency in Iraq to the
bombing of Dresden and the Amristar Massacre in India, civilians
are often abused and killed when they are caught in the cross-fire
of wars and other conflicts. In Democracy’s Blameless Leaders,
Neil Mitchell examines how leaders in democracies manage the blame
for the abuse and the killing of civilians, arguing that
politicians are likely to react in a self-interested and
opportunistic way and seek to deny and evade accountability. Using
empirical evidence from well-known cases of abuse and atrocity
committed by the security forces of established, liberal
democracies, Mitchell shows that self-interested political leaders
will attempt to evade accountability for abuse and atrocity, using
a range of well-known techniques including denial, delay,
diversion, and delegation to pass blame for abuse and atrocities to
the lowest plausible level. Mitchell argues that, despite the
conventional wisdom that accountability is a ‘central feature’
of democracies, it is only a rare and courageous leader who acts
differently, exposing the limits of accountability in democratic
societies. As democracies remain embroiled in armed conflicts, and
continue to try to come to grips with past atrocities,
Democracy’s Blameless Leaders provides a timely analysis of why
these events occur, why leaders behave as they do, and how a more
accountable system might be developed.
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