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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition Revised edition
David Runciman
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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition Revised edition
David Runciman
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 t
416 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 31, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691178134 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 416 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 142 × 28 mm · 394 g |
| Language | English |
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