This book explores the consequences of participatory development. It highlights the dissonance between the goals of participatory development and its actual outcome. Although participation seeks to empower and develop, in reality it seems to do more harm than good. This critical analysis urges the advocates of participatory development to rethink their methods and face the fact that participatory development fuels the problems that it claims to resolve. The book justifies this inconsistent relationship between participation and tyranny with its’ many provoking arguments that show tyranny to be a very tangible and potential consequence of participatory development.