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Much has been written about the arrival of artificial intelligence, but according to political philosopher David Runciman, we've been living with AI for 300 years-because states and corporations are robots, too. In this mind-bending work, Runciman explains the modern world through the history of the "artificial agents" we created to rescue us from our all-too-human limitations. From the United States and the United Kingdom to the East India Co...

In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it.What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion a new approach to abolishing it? Why should we tolerate snobbery, betrayal and hypocrisy, as Judith Shklar suggested? A...

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The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do, and which, un...

A primer on political theory from bestselling author and host of Talking Politics David Runciman.

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Alles hat ein Ende: Was für das menschliche Leben gilt, trifft auch auf politische Systeme zu. Zwar haben die westlichen Demokratien heute ihren Zenit überschritten, aber sie sind noch nicht an ihr Ende gelangt. Sie stecken in der Midlife-Crisis, sind erschöpft und schwerfällig. Donald Trump wird die Demokratie nicht zugrunde richten, so ist David Runciman überzeugt. Viel gefährlicher wird ihr Mark Zuckerberg, der ein System geschaffen hat, d...

Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought the highest office. And yet when they reached their goal, they often found that the power they had imagined was illusory. Their sweeping visions of reform faltered. They faced bureaucratic obstructions, but often the biggest obstruction was their o...

The renowned expert behind the "Talking Politics" podcast surveys the political situation of the west and offers advice based on the proposition that democracy is collapsing, set to be replaced by a different state of affairs.

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A history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present. This volume reveals how democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. He explores the idea of whether democracy is in a confidence trap and whether there may be a crisis too big to escape. Revised edition.

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsIn the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and poor to the impact of social media, via Machiavelli, Hobbes and Weber, Runciman's comprehensive short introduction is invaluable to those studying po...

In this wide-ranging, original, and highly compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from WWI through to the economic crash of 2008. Suggests that the most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change.

What is representation? What does it mean when a politician represents citizens in government? How can citizens be represented beyond the boundaries of the nation-state? These are just some of the questions which will be answered by David Runciman and Mónica Brito Vieira as they explain why representation should be understood as one of the key concepts in modern politics. The first part of the book examines the historical roots of the concept...

What is representation? What does it mean when a politician represents citizens in government? How can citizens be represented beyond the boundaries of the nation-state? These are just some of the questions which will be answered by David Runciman and Mónica Brito Vieira as they explain why representation should be understood as one of the key concepts in modern politics. The first part of the book examines the historical roots of the concept...

A compelling debut novel of nineteen short and diverse stories, touching a host of subjects including aliens, death and horror. With each story completely different from the last, it takes the reader on a journey through a cross section of debauched human life. A look on the dark side of life and beyond, with more twists and turns than the monaco grand prix.

Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells the history of English political thought from 1900 1933.

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Potendo scegliere, oggi, dove vi piacerebbe nascere? In Danimarca o in Siria? Pochi avrebbero dubbi: la Danimarca è una nazione ricca, con uno stato sociale tra i più efficienti al mondo e una speranza di vita tra le più alte, la Siria è nel mezzo di una sanguinosa guerra civile, ma anche prima della guerra le cose non andavano nel migliore dei modi. Ma perché la Danimarca è la Danimarca e la Siria è la Siria? La differenza - sostiene Runciman...