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

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

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  • ISBN:9780691178134
  • Editorial: Princeton University Press
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  • Nº Pág.:416
  • Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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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 book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008.

A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It also looks at the confusion and uncertainty created by unexpected victories, from the defeat of German autocracy in 1918 to the defeat of communism in 1989. Throughout, the book pays close attention to the politicians and thinkers who grappled with these crises: from Woodrow Wilson, Nehru, and Adenauer to Fukuyama and Obama.

In The Confidence Trap, David Runciman shows that democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. The lesson democracies tend to learn from their mistakes is that they can survive them'and that no crisis is as bad as it seems. Breeding complacency rather than wisdom, crises lead to the dangerous belief that democracies can muddle through anything'a confidence trap that may lead to a crisis that is just too big to escape, if it hasn't already. The most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change. If democracy is to survive them, it must figure out a way to break the confidence trap.
David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His books include The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy (both Princeton). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books.

Preface xi
Introduction Tocqueville: Democracy and Crisis 1
1 1918: False Dawn 35
2 1933: Fear Itself 76
3 1947: Trying Again 111
4 1962: On the Brink 145
5 1974: Crisis of Confidence 184
6 1989: The End of History 225
7 2008: Back to the Future 263
Epilogue The Confidence Trap 293
Afterword to the Revised Edition 327
Acknowledgments 343
Notes 345
Bibliography 361
Index 385

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