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How Democracy Ends

How Democracy Ends

by David Runciman
Hardback
Publication Date: 10/05/2018

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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However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date.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.

ISBN:
9781781259740
9781781259740
Category:
Political structures: democracy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
10-05-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
222x144x28mm
Weight:
0.43kg
David Runciman

David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies.

He is the author of five previous books, including Political Hypocrisy, The Confidence Trap and Politics (for the Ideas in Profile series).

He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books and hosts the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics.

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