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 de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Runciman, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Edición:Revised edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
World politics.
Democracy.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Politique mondiale > 21e siecle.
Politique mondiale > 20e siecle.
World politics > 21st century.
World politics > 20th century.
Democracy > History > 21st century.
Democracy > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Tocqueville : democracy and crisis
  • 1918 : false dawn
  • 1933 : fear itself
  • 1947 : trying again
  • 1962 : on the brink
  • 1974 : crisis of confidence
  • 1989 : the end of history
  • 2008 : back to the future
  • Epilogue. The confidence trap
  • Afterword to the revised edition.

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