In a Frozen Crouch
Colin Kidd: Democracy’s Ends, 13 September 2018
How Democracy Ends
by David Runciman.
Profile, 249 pp., £14.99, May 2018,978 1 78125 974 0 Show More
by David Runciman.
Profile, 249 pp., £14.99, May 2018,
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – And How to Fix It
by Dambisa Moyo.
Little, Brown, 296 pp., £20, April 2018,978 1 4087 1089 0 Show More
by Dambisa Moyo.
Little, Brown, 296 pp., £20, April 2018,
How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
Viking, 311 pp., £16.99, January 2018,978 0 241 31798 3 Show More
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
Viking, 311 pp., £16.99, January 2018,
Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
by William Galston.
Yale, 158 pp., £25, June 2018,978 0 300 22892 2 Show More
by William Galston.
Yale, 158 pp., £25, June 2018,
“... such anxieties aren’t new. Book titles such as How Democracy Ends and How Democracies Die echo Jean-François Revel’s gloomy Comment les démocraties finissent, published in 1983. Revel, a shrill conservative, thought Western democracy was doomed, its very openness, pluralism and tolerance of criticism rendering it vulnerable to a less scrupulous ... ”