{"product_id":"how-democracy-ends","title":"How Democracy Ends","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSince the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow Democracy Ends\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure.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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA provocative book by a major political philosopher, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow Democracy Ends\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e asks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"EnglishBookHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52751611429227,"sku":null,"price":995.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/7971\/6459\/files\/How-Democracy-Ends-EnglishBookHouse-2583666.jpg?v=1768213504","url":"https:\/\/www.thereadingtime.com\/products\/how-democracy-ends","provider":"THE READING TIME","version":"1.0","type":"link"}