The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman

The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present

David Runciman

408 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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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 bo...

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