Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read -- Mark Mazower - Guardian

Incredibly timely ... wonderful elegance and clarity through which complex ideas are presented ... That the book helps make thinking about the state enjoyable is just the least of its many exceptional qualities -- Paschal Donohoe - Irish Times

A brilliant introduction for anyone looking to engage with political debates beyond the headlines ... Excellent -- Joshua Pugh Ginn - Herald

A studiously accessible work - Times Higher Education

Praise for How Democracy Ends:
Presented in pellucid prose free of the jargon of academic political science, it is a strikingly readable and richly learned contribution to understanding the world today...one of the most luminously intelligent books on politics to have been published for many years.

-- John Gray - New Statesman

Full of intriguing new lines of thought -- Gideon Rachman - FT

Clear-headed, compact and timely - Irish Times

Refreshingly free of received and rehearsed wisdoms, Runciman doesn't tiptoe around sacred cows and invites us to take part in that most adult way of thinking: to examine contradictory ideas in tandem and ponder what the dissonance amounts to. . . . [H]e argues lucidly, persuasively, even exhilaratingly at times. The nightly news will never appear exactly the same again - Australian

Refreshingly, rather than a knicker-twisting diatribe about Trump and Brexit, Runciman offers a thoughtful analysis about what popular democracy means, and its alternatives -- Katrina Gulliver - Spectator

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