On Democracy: Why good intentions fail
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- Democracy is often discussed as a moral ideal. When it fails, we search for better leaders, greater honesty, or more participation. Yet across countries and political cultures, the same frustrations repeat: elections change faces but not outcomes, scandals absorb attention without producing learning, and citizens disengage not out of apathy, but exhaustion.In On Democracy: Why Good Intentions Fail, Antonio Neri argues that these failures are not primarily the result of bad actors or declining values. They arise when democratic systems lose the structural conditions that make accountability possible.Rather than offering reforms or solutions, the book provides a clear diagnostic framework for understanding how accountability actually works — and how it quietly breaks. It examines why elections alone cannot sustain judgment, why transparency often reassures without constraining, and how modern political systems replace durable accountability with its simulation.Drawing on historical examples and contemporary dynamics, the book shows how democratic failure can persist even when intentions are sincere and institutions remain formally intact. What disappears is not participation or debate, but the ability for judgment to accumulate and matter over time.Written for thoughtful readers rather than specialists, On Democracy is a concise, non-ideological examination of political frustration — one that replaces outrage with clarity, and moral certainty with structural understanding.
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