David Runciman 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.
"How Democracy Ends is a thorough study of democracy and its trials
and tribulations on approaching midlife. Inhabitants have enjoyed
its fruits: freedom, prosperity, and longevity. Democracy offers us
opportunities to do exciting things."--New York Journal of
Books
"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
"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
"In his admirable analysis, How Democracy Ends, he says the trouble
is that we remember the least helpful bits of history, perpetually
harking back to the 1930s to explain the aspects of modern politics
we like least: Trump especially."--Evening Standard (UK)
"Presented in pellucid prose free of the jargon of academic
political science, How Democracy Ends is a strikingly readable and
richly learned contribution to understanding the world today."--New
Statesman (UK)
"The cogency, subtlety and style with which he teases out the
paradoxes and perils faced by democracy makes this one of the very
best of the great crop of recent books on the subject."--The
Guardian (UK)
"Those who welcome encouragement to consider all sides and avoid
jumping to conclusions...will find this a reasoned and balanced
analysis of the political moment."--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 of These Truths: A History of the United States
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