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The Confidence Trap : A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition /
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 democrac...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | Revised |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Tocqueville: Democracy and Crisis
- Chapter 1. 1918: False Dawn
- Chapter 2. 1933: Fear Itself
- Chapter 3. 1947: Trying Again
- Chapter 4. 1962: On the Brink
- Chapter 5. 1974: Crisis of Confidence
- Chapter 6. 1989: The End of History
- Chapter 7. 2008: Back to the Future
- Epilogue: The Confidence Trap
- Afterword to the Revised Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index