How democracy ends
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How democracy ends
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- Label
- How democracy ends
- Statement of responsibility
- David Runciman
- Subject
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- Democracy
- Democracy
- Democracy -- Forecasting
- Democracy -- Forecasting
- Democracy -- United States -- Forecasting
- Demokratie
- Demokratie
- Europe
- Europe
- Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- HISTORY / Europe / Western
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
- 2000-2099
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda
- Politics and government
- Politics and government
- Politische Philosophie
- Politische Philosophie
- United States
- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- World politics
- World politics
- World politics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom
- Democracy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure.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"--Amazon
- "Nothing lasts forever. At some point democracy was always going to pass into the annals of history. But few people around today thought it would happen in their lifetimes. And until very recently almost no one thought it might happen right before our eyes. Now many are asking: Is this how democracy ends? In this surprising and counterintuitive book, the eminent political philosopher David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated modes of thinking. Our expectations are shaped by past stories of democracies collapsing--Europe in the 1930s, Latin America in the 1970s--but we are wrong if we think that history will repeat itself. Western societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need to stop looking for tanks in the streets and start looking for the twenty-first-century symptoms. The real danger to democracy lies in our increasingly decayed institutions. We are more at risk from conmen than from extremists. We are more likely to see our democracy hollowed out by technology than taken over by tyrants. All political systems come to an end. Runciman helps us think about the previously unthinkable: what will democratic failure look like in the twenty-first century? And what will come after?"--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- Dewey number
- 321.8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JC423
- LC item number
- .R798 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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