How democracy ends / David Runciman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Runciman, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Democracy--United States--Forecasting.

Forecasting.

United States.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

249 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2018.

Summary:

"In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure.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.

Contents:

Preface: Thinking the unthinkable

Introduction: 20 January 2017

Coup!

Catastrophe!

Technological takeover!

Something better?

Conclusion: This is how democracy ends

Epilogue: 20 January 2053.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical resources (pages 225-238) and index.

ISBN:

1541616782

9781541616783

OCLC:

1011172281