BOOK REVIEW: DAVID RUNCIMAN, “HOW DEMOCRACY ENDS”, BASIC BOOKS, 2018, PP. 256

Abstract

As the title suggests, this book is based on the premise that democracy as we know as a result of a sum of evolutionary processes is currently in a process of instability due to factors and elements that threaten to slowly but surely erode democracy until it enters into irrelevance and replaces it with totalitarianism. The book is structured in 4 chapters, each analyzing a distinct cause that erodes the democratic process but also providing a contextualization in order to better understand the historical causes and the foundation of the problem.