TY  - BOOK
AU  - Runciman, David.
TI  - The confidence trap: a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present 
SN  - 9780691148687 (hardback)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - UK
PB  - princeton university press
KW  - Democracy;Democracy;World politics;World politics;POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.;POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.;HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.;HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century.;HISTORY / World.;HISTORY / United States / Gene
KW  - History;History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index
N2  - "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, Dav
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