The Confidence Trap

A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition

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David Runciman

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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from t

Author Biography:

David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His books include The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy (both Princeton). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books.

Release date NZ

October 31st, 2017

Author

David Runciman

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Preface by David Runciman

Edition

Revised edition

Pages

416

ISBN-13

9780691178134

Product ID

26791772

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