What is it about?
A review of David Runciman's 'How Democract Ends' for The Political Quarterly. Runciman examines the various ways in which democratic societies can collapse, including classic military coups d'etat, political coups by voter suppression and fraud, and the various manifestations of populism.
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Why is it important?
His book is highly relevant in a world where democracy appears threatened or actually retreating everywhere.
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I reviewed this book at a time when the UK parliament was in turmoil, with the threat of prorogation.
Mr Richard John Pountain
Dennis Publishing
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This page is a summary of: Democracy's mid‐life crisis?, The Political Quarterly, March 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923x.12676.
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