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Article: Mann, Michael: The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing.(Book review)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- June 22, 2006
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Mann, Michael The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing New York: Cambridge University Press 450 pp., $70.00 cloth, $24.00 paper ISBN 0-521 83130 X cloth ISBN 0-521-53854-8 paper Publication Dale: November 2004
Democracy and genocide are terms that are not usually associated with each other. However, Michael Mann puts forth the very provocative argument that the increase of democracies over the past century is directly connected to the widespread incidents of ethnic cleansing and genocide over the same period. In The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing, Mann, a noted scholar on Fascism, provides five hundred pages of dense case ...