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SUMMARY:How do democracies change? - Dr.David Runciman (Professor of Polit
 ics\, POLIS)
DTSTART:20191023T163000Z
DTEND:20191023T183000Z
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CONTACT:64876
DESCRIPTION:Brexit has shown how easy it is for contemporary democracies t
 o get stuck. But once we can see that they are no longer working\, how eas
 y is it to reinvent the way that they work? This lecture will explore the 
 challenge of turning around failing democratic institutions without underm
 ining the idea of democracy itself. As psychotherapists say: How can we ch
 ange without changing?\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nDavid Runciman is Professor
  of Politics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.  His bo
 oks include Political Hypocrisy\, The Confidence Trap and How Democracy En
 ds.  His next book Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of President
 s and Prime Ministers is being published by Profile in August. He writes r
 egularly about contemporary politics for the London Review of Books\, wher
 e he is contributing editor\, and he hosts the popular weekly podcast Talk
 ing Politics.  He currently works with the Leverhulme Centre for the Futur
 e of Intelligence and in October 2019 will be launching the Centre for the
  Future of Democracy at the Bennett Institute in Cambridge.\n\n\nThis even
 t is part of WOLFSON EXPLORES |Transformation| and the Cambridge Festival 
 of Ideas.
LOCATION:The Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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