David Runciman

David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State, The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy.

In the LRB Archive:

• How messy it all is: Who benefits from equality? · 22 October 2009

  • The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

• Like Boiling a Frog: The Future of Wikipedia · 28 May 2009

  • The Wikipedia Revolution by Andrew Lih

• Bouncebackability: Athenian Democracy and Google · 29 January 2009

  • Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens by Josiah Ober

• Diary: The Problem with English Football · 23 October 2008

• Why Not Eat an Eclair?: Why Vote? · 9 October 2008

  • Free Riding by Richard Tuck

• The Cattle-Prod Election: The Point of the Polls · 5 June 2008

• This Way to the Ruin: the British Constitution · 7 February 2008

  • The British Constitution by Anthony King

• Brown and Friends: Brown and Friends · 3 January 2008

• In a Faraway Pond: The NGO · 29 November 2007

  • Non-Governmental Politics edited by Michel Feher

• Diary: Dylan on the radio · 19 July 2007

• Liars, Hypocrites and Crybabies: Blair v. Brown · 2 November 2006

• Juiced: Winners Do Drugs · 3 August 2006

  • Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, Balco and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

• He shoots! He scores!: José Mourinho · 5 January 2006

  • Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner by Patrick Barclay

• Cricket’s Superpowers: Beyond the Ashes · 22 September 2005

• Tax Breaks for Rich Murderers: Bush and the ‘Death Tax’ · 2 June 2005

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth by Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro

• Institutional Hypocrisy: Selling the NHS · 21 April 2005

  • Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare by Dennis Thompson
  • NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Healthcare by Allyson Pollock
  • Brown’s Britain by Robert Peston

• Neo-Blairism: Blair’s conference speech · 21 October 2004

• How many jellybeans?: non-spurious generalisations and why the crowd will win · 5 August 2004

  • Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes by Frederick Schauer
  • The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few by James Surowiecki

• Betting big, winning small: Blair’s Gambles · 20 May 2004

• The Precautionary Principle: Taking a Chance on War · 1 April 2004

• Oh, the curse! hits a home run · 19 February 2004

  • Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

• Shockingly Worldly: the Abbé Sieyès · 23 October 2003

  • Emmanuel Sieyès: Political Writings edited by Michael Sonenscher

• Politicians in a Fix: The uses of referendums · 10 July 2003

• The Politics of Good Intentions: Blair’s Masochism · 8 May 2003

• A Bear Armed with a Gun: The Widening Atlantic · 3 April 2003

  • Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan

• The Garden, the Park and the Meadow: After the Nation State · 6 June 2002

  • The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
  • Reordering the World: The Long-Term Implications of 11 September edited by Mark Leonard

• Invented Communities: post-nationalism · 19 July 2001

  • Democracy in Europe by Larry Siedentop
  • The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Max Pensky

• Creative Accounting: Money and the Arts · 4 June 1998

  • Artist Unknown: An Alternative History of the Arts Council by Richard Witts
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen

• No Exit · 23 May 1996

  • The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain edited by S.J.D. Green and R.C. Whiting

• The Plot to Make Us Stupid · 22 February 1996

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