{"product_id":"how-democracy-ends","title":"How Democracy Ends","description":"How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy\n\nSince 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 How bad could things get?\n\nIn How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure.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.\n\nA provocative book by a major political philosopher, How Democracy Ends asks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1541616782\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1541616782.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Runciman, David\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43400642822205,"sku":"BVV.1541616782.VG","price":5.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1541616782-0.jpg?v=1785102332","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/how-democracy-ends","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}