How Democracy Ends [electronic resource]
Runciman, David2018
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'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the people can be trusted to look after their own affairs again. However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date. Until very recently, most citizens of Western democracies would have imagined that the end was a long way off, and very few would have thought it might be happening before their eyes as Trump, Brexit and paranoid populism have become a reality. David Runciman, one of the UK's leading professors of politics, answers all this and more as he surveys the political landscape of the West, helping us to spot the new signs of a collapsing democracy and advising us on what could come next.
Main title:
How Democracy Ends [electronic resource] / David Runciman
Author:
Runciman, David, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Profile, 2018
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the author of many books about politics, including The Politics of Good Intentions (2006), Political Hypocrisy (2008) and The Confidence Trap (2013). He writes regularly about politics and current affairs for a wide range of publications including the London Review of Books. Politics is the first book in Profile's new Ideas in Profile series.
ISBN:
9781782834120
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English
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2838151
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