How democracy ends
By: David Runciman
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781541616783
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Political culture; Forecasting; Democracy
Description: "In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure.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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical resources (pages 225-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Thinking the unthinkable; title: Introduction: 20 January 2017; title: Coup!; title: Catastrophe!; title: Technological takeover!; title: Something better?; title: Conclusion: This is how democracy ends; title: Epilogue: 20 January 2053.