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100	1		_aRunciman, David.
245	1	4	_aConfidence trap : _ba history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present / _cDavid Runciman.
264		1	_aPrinceton ; _aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2013.
300			_axxiii, 381 p. ; _c22 cm
501			_a"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 the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It also looks at the confusion and uncertainty created by unexpected victories, from the defeat of German autocracy in 1918 to the defeat of communism in 1989. Throughout, the book pays close attention to the politicians and thinkers who grappled with these crises: from Woodrow Wilson, Nehru, and Adenauer to Fukuyama and Obama. The Confidence Trap shows that democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. The lesson democracies tend to learn from their mistakes is that they can survive them--and that no crisis is as bad as it seems. Breeding complacency rather than wisdom, crises lead to the dangerous belief that democracies can muddle through anything--a confidence trap that may lead to a crisis that is just too big to escape, if it hasn't already. The most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change. If democracy is to survive them, it must figure out a way to break the confidence trap"
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index.
505			_a Tocqueville : democracy and crisis -- 1918 : false dawn -- 1933 : fear itself -- 1947 : trying again -- 1962 : on the brink -- 1974 : crisis of confidence -- 1989 : the end of history -- 2008 : back to the future -- The confidence trap.
520			_a"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 the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It also looks at the confusion and uncertainty created by unexpected victories, from the defeat of German autocracy in 1918 to the defeat of communism in 1989. Throughout, the book pays close attention to the politicians and thinkers who grappled with these crises: from Woodrow Wilson, Nehru, and Adenauer to Fukuyama and Obama.The Confidence Trap shows that democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. The lesson democracies tend to learn from their mistakes is that they can survive them--and that no crisis is as bad as it seems. Breeding complacency rather than wisdom, crises lead to the dangerous belief that democracies can muddle through anything--a confidence trap that may lead to a crisis that is just too big to escape, if it hasn't already. The most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change. If democracy is to survive them, it must figure out a way to break the confidence trap"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDemocracy _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDemocracy _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aWorld politics _y20th century.
650		0	_aWorld politics _y21st century.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 21st Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / World. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / General. _2bisacsh
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