David Runciman

The Confidence Trap

A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from t

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised Edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780691178134
• ISBN-10: 0691178135
• Artikelnr.: 48095184

Autorenporträt

David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His books include The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy (both Princeton). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books.

Rezensionen

"His rich and refreshing book will be of intense interest to anyone puzzled by the near paralysis that seems to afflict democratic government in a number of countries, not least the United States. Runciman's account of the workings of the confidence trap--the belief that democracy will always survive--will serve as an antidote to the moods of alarm and triumph by which writers on democracy are regularly seized."--John Gray, New York Review of Books