How Democracy Ends
Autor David Runcimanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iun 2018
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outdated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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781541616783
ISBN-10: 1541616782
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 168 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 1541616782
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 168 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
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Notă biografică
David
Runcimanis
a
professor
of
politics
at
Cambridge
University.
The
author
of
five
previous
books
and
a
contributing
editor
to
theLondon
Review
of
Books,
he
hosts
the
widely-acclaimed
podcastTalking
Politics.
Runciman
lives
in
Cambridge,
United
Kingdom.
Recenzii
"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."—New York Journal of Books
"In hisadmirable analysis, How Democracy Ends, he says the trouble is that we rememberthe least helpful bits of history, perpetually harking back to the 1930s toexplain the aspects of modern politics we like least: Trump especially."—Evening Standard(UK)
"Presentedin pellucid prose free of the jargon of academic political science,HowDemocracy Endsis a strikingly readable and richly learned contribution tounderstanding the world today."—New Statesman(UK)
"Democracy isn't dead, not yet, but it could use some physical therapy while it steps gingerly into the grave. For all its optimism, an urgent, necessary book of cold comforts."—Kirkus
"Thosewho welcome encouragement to consider all sides and avoid jumping toconclusions...will find this a reasoned and balanced analysis of the politicalmoment."—Publishers Weekly
"What kills democracies? And, when they're dead, what replaces them? In this bracing reckoning, the brilliant David Runciman asks a series of questions whose answers take him from Hobbes to Gandhi, from the Colosseum to Facebook. A searching and urgent book."—Jill Lepore, author ofThese Truths: A History of the United States
"As our advanced democracies wither, David Runciman suggests we may have been looking in the wrong places to understand what is happening. This wise and sobering book argues convincingly that neither history nor contemporary autocratic regimes offer a good guide to democratic decay. If and when Western democracies end, they will do so in novel ways not experienced previously or elsewhere. Runciman's book breaks genuinely new ground in a very crowded field."—Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
"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."—New York Journal of Books
"In hisadmirable analysis, How Democracy Ends, he says the trouble is that we rememberthe least helpful bits of history, perpetually harking back to the 1930s toexplain the aspects of modern politics we like least: Trump especially."—Evening Standard(UK)
"Presentedin pellucid prose free of the jargon of academic political science,HowDemocracy Endsis a strikingly readable and richly learned contribution tounderstanding the world today."—New Statesman(UK)
"Democracy isn't dead, not yet, but it could use some physical therapy while it steps gingerly into the grave. For all its optimism, an urgent, necessary book of cold comforts."—Kirkus
"Thosewho welcome encouragement to consider all sides and avoid jumping toconclusions...will find this a reasoned and balanced analysis of the politicalmoment."—Publishers Weekly
"What kills democracies? And, when they're dead, what replaces them? In this bracing reckoning, the brilliant David Runciman asks a series of questions whose answers take him from Hobbes to Gandhi, from the Colosseum to Facebook. A searching and urgent book."—Jill Lepore, author ofThese Truths: A History of the United States
"As our advanced democracies wither, David Runciman suggests we may have been looking in the wrong places to understand what is happening. This wise and sobering book argues convincingly that neither history nor contemporary autocratic regimes offer a good guide to democratic decay. If and when Western democracies end, they will do so in novel ways not experienced previously or elsewhere. Runciman's book breaks genuinely new ground in a very crowded field."—Dani Rodrik, Harvard University