In a Frozen Crouch
Colin Kidd: Democracy’s Ends, 13 September 2018
How Democracy Ends
by David Runciman.
Profile, 249 pp., £14.99, May 2018,978 1 78125 974 0 Show More
by David Runciman.
Profile, 249 pp., £14.99, May 2018,
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – And How to Fix It
by Dambisa Moyo.
Little, Brown, 296 pp., £20, April 2018,978 1 4087 1089 0 Show More
by Dambisa Moyo.
Little, Brown, 296 pp., £20, April 2018,
How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
Viking, 311 pp., £16.99, January 2018,978 0 241 31798 3 Show More
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
Viking, 311 pp., £16.99, January 2018,
Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
by William Galston.
Yale, 158 pp., £25, June 2018,978 0 300 22892 2 Show More
by William Galston.
Yale, 158 pp., £25, June 2018,
“... true that the United States presents a distinctive version of democracy’s current malaise. As Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt note, Trump was elected not by a majority of the popular vote, but by an institution, the electoral college, devised as a defence against rabble-rousers of his ilk. It is scant consolation that the Founding Fathers saw him ... ”
