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SUMMARY:How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable - Prof. David Runcima
 n\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20171127T193000Z
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CONTACT:John Cook
DESCRIPTION:*Democracy is feeling the strain everywhere. What might happen
  next? How bad could it get?*\n\nWorst-case scenarios for democracy - espe
 cially since the election of President Trump - usually hark back to how de
 mocracy has failed in the past. Do we risk going back to the 1930s? No - i
 f democracy fails in the twenty-first century it will be in ways that are 
 new and surprising. The decline of violence\, the ageing of our societies 
 and the rise of digital technology all mean that we need to look beyond th
 e experiences of the twentieth century if we are to understand how democra
 cy might end.\n\nDavid Runciman is Professor of Politics and Head of the D
 epartment of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge. His recent b
 ooks include Political Hypocrisy and The Confidence Trap: A History of Dem
 ocracy in Crisis (both Princeton). His is next book is called How Democrac
 y Ends (Profile). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review
  of Books and is the host of the popular weekly podcast Talking Politics.\
 n\n"Add to calendar":https://www.addevent.com/event/?hN561336\n\n"Find out
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 cracy-ends-thinking-the-unthinkable/\n\n"Find out about CSAR membership":h
 ttp://www.csar.org.uk/membership/\n
LOCATION:The Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College\, Storey's Way\, Cambridge\,
  CB3 0DS
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