Ibaguner, Sinan: Democracy, Demonstration, and Demobitocracy A Philosophical–Economic Reflection on Systemic Corruption, Symbolic Governance, and Tender Power

Modern democracy does not usually collapse in a single revolutionary moment. More often, it erodes recursively: institution by institution, exception by exception, tolerated compromise by tolerated compromise. The danger begins not merely when corruption exists, but when corruption becomes structurally expected, selectively ignored, and psychologically normalized. A democracy may survive constitutional form while gradually losing ethical substance. This condition may be called Demobitocracy ; si