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,
“... shared in the 1970s and early 1980s. In February 1974 the head of the home civil service, Sir William Armstrong, suffered a dramatic nervous breakdown in Downing Street, convinced that democracy itself was at stake in the miners’ confrontation with Ted Heath’s government. When Armstrong’s colleague Sir Douglas Allen, the permanent secretary at the ... ”