Much ado about democracy

The book takes readers on a roller-coaster ride about the past episodes of democratic failures interspersed with a whole variety of philosophical arguments

How Democracy Ends
 

David Runciman
 

Profile Books
 

249 pages
 

Rs 443

David Runciman, the author of How Democracy Ends, and a professor of politics at Cambridge University, starts his book by recounting the inauguration of Donald Trump’s presidency. “To borrow a phrase from philosophy, it looked like the reductio ad absurdum of democratic politics: any process that produces such a ridiculous conclusion must have gone seriously wrong somewhere along the way,” he states. In other words, he says, “If Trump is the answer, we are no longer asking the right question.”

Without a doubt, the rise of Mr Trump to the status