How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy
Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get?
InHow Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable--a twenty-first-century vision of the end of democracy, and whether its collapse might allow us to move forward to something better.
A provocative book by a major political philosopher,How Democracy Endsasks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life.
is a professor of politics at Cambridge University. The author of five previous books and a contributing editor to the
London Review of Books, he hosts the widely-acclaimed podcast
Talking Politics. Runciman lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Thecogency, subtlety and style with which he teases out the paradoxes and perilsfaced by democracy makes this one of the very best of the great crop of recentbooks on the subject.
The Guardian(UK) How Democracy Endsis a thorough study of democracy and its trials and tribulations onapproaching midlife. Inhabitants have enjoyed its fruits: freedom, prosperity,and longevity. Democracy offers us opportunities to do exciting things.
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