Table of Contents

Introduction: Pious Discourses of Democracy 1: Complexity Theory and Democratic Politics 2: Complexity, Democratisation and Conflict 3: Democracy, Consensus and Dissent 4: Democracy and Violence 5: Terrorism, Violence and the Ethics of Democracy Conclusion: The Constitutive Failure of Democracy Bibliography

About the Author

Adrian Little is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Melbourne. He is author of The Political Thought of Andre Gortz (1996), Post-Industrial Socialism: Towards a New Politics of Welfare (1998), The Politics of Community: Theory and Practice (2002) and Democracy and Northern Ireland: Beyond the Liberal Paradigm? (2004). He is co-editor of Modern Political Thought: A Reader (2000).