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Democracy and Its Crisis
Democracy and Its Crisis | A. C. Grayling
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Prompted by events in recent years in the UK and the USA, in Latin America, Russia and the Middle East, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to sustain themselves against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters. In each of five short chapters, he considers a moment in history in which the challenges we face today were first encountered, how they were overcome – or not – and with what consequences. With the advent of authoritarian leaders and the simultaneous rise of populism, representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place, yet it is this space that it must occupy, argues Grayling, if a civilized society, that looks after all its people, is to flourish.
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Democracy and Its Crisis | A. C. Grayling
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Ice cream and some appropriate reading based on today's events.

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Democracy and Its Crisis | A. C. Grayling
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Such an important look at how our practice at democracy has led to a President Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK. A history of democracy and it's forms as well as steps required to move forward to a better practice of the best of bad governments.