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Democracy's blameless leaders [[electronic resource] ] : from Dresden to Abu Ghraib, how leaders evade accountability for abuse, atrocity, and killing / / Neil James Mitchell



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Autore: Mitchell Neil J (Neil James), <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Democracy's blameless leaders [[electronic resource] ] : from Dresden to Abu Ghraib, how leaders evade accountability for abuse, atrocity, and killing / / Neil James Mitchell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina: 303.3/4
Soggetto topico: Political leadership - Moral and ethical aspects
Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects
Civilians in war - Crimes against
Criminal liability (International law)
Atrocities
Government accountability
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- The theory of the fall guy -- Evading accountability -- Amritsar -- Dresden -- Londonderry -- Beirut -- Baghdad -- Baghdad to Basra -- A tale of a few cities: better leaders, better institutions, or a better audience?.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Democracy's blameless leaders  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6338-3
0-8147-6337-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460974603321
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