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How Democracy Ends

By: David Runciman
Narrated by: David Runciman
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Summary

 Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the people can be trusted to look after their own affairs again. However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date.

Until very recently, most citizens of Western democracies would have imagined that the end was a long way off, and very few would have thought it might be happening before their eyes as Trump, Brexit and paranoid populism have become a reality.

David Runciman, one of the UK's leading professors of politics, answers all this and more as he surveys the political landscape of the West, helping us to spot the new signs of a collapsing democracy and advising us on what could come next.©2018 David Runciman (P)2018 Hachette Audio UK Political Science Politics & Government United States World Socialism Military Russia
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Brilliantly insightful a fantastic. Listen. So good. I had to listen to it twice. The subjective democracy is the sort of discussion that you need to have someone like David available, so you can stay on the right path and the fact that you actually came out with other solutions to democracy made it even more intriguing.

Brilliant

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As always Runciman provides short & long term perspective & critical understanding of a complex issue that beggars most eras, few more than our own. He remains at the very top of political scientists who have a broad understanding of history & a splendid depth of greater social context. The book was written before the return of Trump but hardly a word is not still relevant.

A brilliant work of clarity for troubled times

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