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1. THE YOUNG: MINORS CARE MORE ABOUT FIXING THE WORLD--BUT THAT WON'T HELP UNLESS WE CHANGE THE WAY OUR DEMOCRACIES WORK

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Democracy -- United Kingdom -- Political aspects, Global temperature changes -- Political aspects, Climate change, Activists, International relations, Political science
Abstract

IN TODAY'S BRITAIN, A RARE PUBLIC FIGURE Can bring together Brexiteers and Remainers, Conservatives and Labour. Yet the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg did just that on a visit to [...]

Published
2019

2. An unheroic age: why do our politicians seem so diminished?

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
United Kingdom -- Political aspects, Politicians -- Evaluation, Politics -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet this summer it reinforced the widely held impression that, compared to previous generations, we live in an age of political pygmies. What has happened [...]

Published
2014

3. Closed minds: The rise of conspiracy thinking

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Rethinking Open Society: New Adversaries and New Opportunities (Essay collection) -- Ignatieff, Michael -- Roch, Stefan, Literature/writing
Abstract

Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch, editors RETHINKING OPEN SOCIETY New adversaries and new opportunities 310pp. CEU Press. Paperback. 25 [pounds sterling] (US $35). 978 963 386 270 4 Tlie Austrian [...]

Published
2019

4. Preacher on a tank

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
A Journey: A Political Life (Autobiography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2010

5. Enabler's revenge

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal that Brought Him Down (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2010

6. Why not eat an eclair?

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Free Riding (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2008

7. They can play, but they can never win: bursting with talent and eternally tipped as the coming force, African countries won't win this World Cup, or the next one, writes David Runciman. The reason? For all the money splashing around, nothing is changing at the grass roots

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
World Cup (Soccer) -- 2006 AD -- Competitions, Professional soccer -- Competitions -- Forecasts and trends, Literature/writing, Political science, Market trend/market analysis, Competitions, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

Pele gave the World Cup some of its greatest moments, but he also burdened it with one of its greatest cliches: in 1977 he announced that an African nation would [...]

Published
2006

8. He shoots! He scores!

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2006

9. Institutional hypocrisy

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
NHS PLC: The Privatisation of Our Healthcare (Book) -- Book reviews, Brown's Britain (Book) -- Book reviews, Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2005

10. Oh, the curse!

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball (Book) -- Book reviews, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2004

11. The Camelot delusion: reassessing John F Kennedy's legacy 50 years on

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
JFK's Last Hundred Days: An Intimate Portrait of a Great President (Nonfiction work) -- Clarke, Thurston, To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (Nonfiction work) -- Sachs, Jeffrey, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace Jeffrey Sachs Bodley Head, 272pp, [pounds sterling]14.99 JFK's Last Hundred Days: an Intimate Portrait of a Great President Thurston Clarke Allen Lane, [...]

Published
2013

12. It's been a lot of fun

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Hitch-22: A Memoir (Autobiography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2010

13. I could fix that

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2009

14. How messy it all is

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2009

15. Like boiling a frog

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2009

16. Bouncebackability

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2009

17. This way to the ruin

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
The British Constitution (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2008

18. In a faraway pond

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Non-Governmental Politics (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2007

19. Liars, hypocrites and crybabies

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
United Kingdom -- Political aspects, Political parties -- United Kingdom, Political parties -- Officials and employees, Cabinet officers -- Political activity, Literature/writing, Publishing industry, Labour Party (United Kingdom) -- Officials and employees, Labour Party (United Kingdom) -- Conferences, meetings and seminars
Published
2006

20. Cricket' superpowers

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Ashes Series (Cricket), Cricket -- International aspects, Cricket -- Competitions, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2005

21. Tax breaks for rich murderers

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2005

22. How many jellybeans

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Book) -- Book reviews, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2004

23. The Paradox of Immediacy: Representative Democracy, Principles and Genealogy

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, The Paradox of Immediacy: Representative Democracy, Principles and Genealogy (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Government, Political science
Published
2010

25. Democracy's Dual Dangers

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Global Economic Crisis, 2008-2010 -- Political aspects -- Evaluation, United States economic conditions -- Political aspects, Democracy -- Evaluation -- United States
Published
2013

26. Where's Hobbes? A lucid account of how Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy was flexible, his theology less so

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Leviathan (Hobbes, Thomas) (Nonfiction work) -- Malcolm, Noel -- Hobbes, Thomas -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Thomas Hobbes LEVIATHAN Volume One: Editorial Introduction Volume Two: The English and Latin Texts Volume Three: The English and Latin Texts Edited by Noel Malcolm 1,832pp. Clarendon Press. 195 [pounds [...]

Published
2013

27. Fear: A Cultural History

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Fear: A Cultural History (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History
Published
2007

28. Book notes

Author

Almond, Brenda, Bounds, Elizabeth M., Bovens, Mark, Brock, Gillian, Clarke, Samuel, Crisp, Roger, Duff, Antony, Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Forrester, Duncan B., Gilbert, Paul, Griffiths, John, Bood, Alex, Weyers, Heleen, Guyer, Paul, Hannay, Alastair, Marino, Gordon D., Hickman, Larry, Soren, Holm, Holmes, Arthur F., Holt, Robin, Humber, James M., Almeder, Robert F., Isaac, Jeffrey C., Ivison, Duncan, Jonathan, Ruth, Kant, Immanuel, Gregor, Mary, Lacey, Nicola, Laursen, John Christian, Nederman, Cary J., Livingston, Donald W., Lott, Tommy L., Lutz, Mark, Lyons, David, McKeogh, Colm, Mehlman, Maxwell J., Botkin, Jeffrey R., Moorthy, R.S., DeGeorge, Richard T., Donaldson, Thomas, Ellos, William J., Solomon, Robert C., Textor, Robert B., Neal, Patrick, Olafson, Frederick, O'Neill, Shane, Peters, Ted, Pinkus, Rosa Lynn B., Shuman, Larry J., Hummon, Norman P., Wolfe, Harvey, Rosenfeld, Michael, Runciman, David, Sheng, C.L., Smith, Nicholas H., Steele, Meili, Stern, Judy E., Deni, Elliott, Stuhr, John J., Uhlmann, Michael M., and Van der Ven, Johannes A.

Subjects
Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale (Book) -- Book reviews, Coming Together/Coming Apart: Religion, Community and Modernity (Book), The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organizations (Book) -- Book reviews, Necessary Goods: Our Responsibilities to Meet Others' Needs (Book) -- Book reviews, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: And Other Writings (Book) -- Book reviews, Mill on Utilitarianism (Book) -- Book reviews, Philosophy and the Criminal Law (Book) -- Book reviews, Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life (Book) -- Book reviews, Christian Justice and Public Policy (Book) -- Book reviews, The Philosophy of Nationalism (Book) -- Book reviews, Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Book) -- Book reviews, Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Critical Essays (Book) -- Book reviews, The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard (Book) -- Book reviews, Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation (Book) -- Book reviews, Ethical Problems in Clinical Practice: The Ethical Reasoning of Health Care Professionals (Book) -- Book reviews, Fact, Value, and God (Book) -- Book reviews, Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights (Book) -- Book reviews, Alternative Medicine and Ethics (Book) -- Book reviews, Democracy in Dark Times (Book) -- Book reviews, The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government (Book) -- Book reviews, Illusory Freedoms: Liberalism, Education and the Market (Book) -- Book reviews, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Book) -- Book reviews, Unspeakable Subjects: Feminist Essays in Legal and Social Theory (Book) -- Book reviews, Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment (Book) -- Book reviews, Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy (Book) -- Book reviews, Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (Book) -- Book reviews, Socrates' Education to Virtue: Learning the Love of the Noble (Book) -- Book reviews, Mill's 'Utilitarianism': Critical Essays (Book), The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr: A Pragmatic Approach to Just War (Book) -- Book reviews, Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality (Book) -- Book reviews, Uncompromising Integrity: Motorola's Global Challenge (Book) -- Book reviews, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Book) -- Book reviews, Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics: A Study of 'Mitsein' (Book) -- Book reviews, Impartiality in Context (Book) -- Book reviews, Genetics: Issues of Social Justice (Book) -- Book reviews, Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule, and Risk: Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Book) -- Book reviews, Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Book) -- Book reviews, Pluralism and the Personality of the State (Book) -- Book reviews, A Utilitarian General Theory of Value (Book) -- Book reviews, Strong Hermeneutics: Contingency and Moral Identity (Book) -- Book reviews, Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression (Book) -- Book reviews, The Ethics of Scientific Research: A Guidebook for Course Development (Book) -- Book reviews, Genealogical Pragmatism (Book) -- Book reviews, Last Rights? Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated (Book) -- Book reviews, Formation of the Moral Self (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
Published
1999

29. The plots against America

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Irrationalism -- Political aspects, Democracy -- Forecasts and trends -- United States, Conspiracy theories -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Psychological aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Education
Abstract

Ever since the historian Richard Hofstadter published 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics,' in 1964, democracies have been stalked by a nagging anxiety about the capacity of irrational suspicions and [...]

Published
2017

30. Networks and the digital revolution

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Forecasts and trends, Social media -- Social aspects -- Forecasts and trends, Social networks -- Social aspects -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Left-wing political parties exist to use the power of the state to rectify unjust distributions of power in society. What has gone wrong with this project? First, the political parties [...]

Published
2016

31. An Essay on the Modern State

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
An Essay on the Modern State (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1999

32. A World Without Meaning

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
A World Without Meaning (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1999

33. The Morality of Nationalism

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
The Morality of Nationalism (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1999

34. Is this the end of the UK?

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
United Kingdom -- Elections, Elections -- Political aspects, Nationalism -- Political aspects, Political parties -- United Kingdom, Political parties -- Political aspects, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2010

35. Diary

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Soccer -- United Kingdom, Soccer -- Appreciation, Soccer teams -- Appreciation, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2008

36. The cattle-prod election

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Presidential candidates -- Public opinion, Public opinion polls -- Evaluation, Electioneering -- Media coverage, Political campaigns -- Media coverage, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Abstract

The US presidential campaigns such as television interviews, speeches and campaign stops, are easy to follow because they are widely covered by the media and are constantly updated. Voting patterns are observed to be predictable, however, American polls are volatile. An evaluation of the candidates' presidential campaigns is presented.

Published
2008

37. Brown and friends

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Prime ministers -- Behavior, Prime ministers -- Ethical aspects, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Abstract

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown needs to have an ideology in politics in order to avoid perceptions of over-reliance on the advice of a small group of people. Brown's advisers and their background are provided.

Published
2008

38. There is no global mercy for Brown

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Prime ministers, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

W ith so many lows to choose from, it is hard to pick the lowest point of Gordon Brown's first 12 months since becoming prime minister a year ago tomorrow. [...]

Published
2008

40. Squalls that await the new prime minister

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

Gordon Brown's arrival at Number 10 Downing Street marks the end of the phoney war with David Cameron and the Conservative party. The next few weeks and perhaps months will [...]

Published
2007

41. The secret was not to think too hard

Author

Runciman, David

Abstract

When Shane Warne burst on the scene in 1992, the cricket world had never seen anything like him. It wasn't just the blonde hair, the earring, the feeling that he […]

Published
2007

42. Politics

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Politics (AA) (Nonfiction work) -- Runciman, David, Books -- Book reviews
Abstract

This is the first volume in the publisher's new Ideas in Profile series of paperbacks and animated ebooks, in which assorted experts offer introductions to big topics. In his primer, […]

Published
2014

43. Blair, not Bush, will end up trapped in a paradox DAVID RUNCIMAN

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Political parties -- United Kingdom, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

As they struggle desperately to nail down their legacies, Tony Blair appears to have one big advantage over George W. Bush: he can pick the timing of his departure. Mr [...]

Published
2006

47. Democratic Justice

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Democratic Justice (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2000

48. Look

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2010

49. Inconvenient truths

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond (Book), Hypocrisy -- Portrayals -- Political aspects, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

The great sin in contemporary democracy is to give the impression that you are holding something back. We want politicians who are comfortable talking about their inner selves, their private [...]

Published
2008

50. Deliberative Democracy

Author

Runciman, David

Subjects
Deliberative Democracy (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1998

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